History Vocab

2. A monetary standard in which one ounce of gold equals a set number of dollars.
4. A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations.
6. Closing of banks during great depression to avoid bank runs.
7. Act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the price will rist.
8. A homeless and usually penniless wanderer.
10. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use.
12. American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation.
14. Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest.
17. Demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin.
18. Government practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes.
20. Aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need.

1. To take possession of a property from a mortgagor becuase of defaults on payments.
3. An acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles causing permanent disability.
5. A person who believes that there should be no government.
9. A long period of rising stock prices.
11. Persistent and heavy demands by a bank's depositors to withdraw money.
13. Minor officer of the courts.
15. Hostility towards immigrants.
16. Radio broadcasts made by Roosevelt to the American people to explain his initiatives.
19. Something that provides security against misfortune.