Module 4/5 Vocab
Across
- 2. the wide spread use of installment plans for consumer goods and leveraged investments in the stock market, which created a cycle of debt and economic instability
- 5. economical collapse
- 7. on Margin allowing many investors to purchase more stocks than they could afford outright
- 8. immediate aid and assistance provided to the millions of unemployed and impoverished Americans
- 10. Spending the us government borrowed money to spend more than it collected in taxes, primarily to provide relief during the great depression
- 13. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interest of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries
- 16. Chat informal radio access by Franklin Roosevelt to the American public
- 17. the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods
- 18. Regular, partial payments towards a purchase
- 19. Run everyone was scared the bank would lose their money and they suddenly withdrew of deposits of just one bank
Down
- 1. the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933
- 3. Packing Plan Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal to increase the number of supreme court justices by allowing the president to appoint one new justice for every jusge over the age of 70 who did not retire
- 4. investors pay only a small percentage of a stock and borrow the rest from a bank
- 6. an illicit liquor store or nightclub
- 9. a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
- 11. tax on imported goods
- 12. a person who advocates or promotes anarchism or anarchy
- 14. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
- 15. Production the production of large quantities of a standardized product
- 20. Line a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled