U.S History Chapter 14 vocabulary

The maintenance of a price at a certain level through government intervention.

An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with inerest charges.

A democrat.

A measure based on the prices of the stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer of the stock market's health.

An involvement in risky business tansactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit.

The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of price and borrowing the rest.

A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell shaply.

A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of American were unemployed.

A law, enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in the U.S. history, worsening the depression in America and abroad.

A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks.

A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy.

A line of people waiting for free food.

The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.

The giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people.

U.S. president during the Great Depression.

A dam on the Colorado River - now called Hoover Dam - that was bulit during the Great Depression as a part of a public-works program intended to stimulate business and provide jobs.

A law enacted in 1931, that lowered home mortage rates and allowed farmers to refinance their loans and avoid foreclosure.

An agency esablished in 1932 to provide emergeency financing to banks, life-insurance companies, railroads, and othe rlarge businesses.

A group of World War 1 veterans and their families who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for military service.