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| on margin is when people paid only part of the cost for stocks and borrowed the rest from stock brokers hoping their stocks would earn enough money to pay back the bebt. |
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| the stock market crashed on tuesday, october 2, 1929. the prices of stock began to drop so people started selling all of their stocks to save whatever money they could. |
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| a time of economic downturn following black tuesday and lasting until 1941. |
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| when businesses aren't able to reapay their debts. |
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| a program to help the needy |
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| churches set these up so the hungry could get food |
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| programs set up by the government to give jobs to the unemployed in order to lower the unemployment rate and conserve natural resources. |
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| the name given to the shacks people lived in showing the discontent with the president. |
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| an additional sum of money |
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