Module 9 vocab

2. practice or strategy of buying cheaply large quantities of land, guessing when the prices of the land would rise enough to make a profit, and then selling that land.
3. the buyer would put down some of his own money, but the rest he would borrow from a broker.
6. prices that the government sets and maintains by buying surplus goods
8. the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
10. an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression in the United States.
14. The index shows how 30 large publicly owned U.S. companies have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market.
17. a line of needy persons. assembled to receive food given as charity
18. United States stock market crashed
19. a place where people who cannot afford, or do not have the means to feed themselves, can get a free or cheap meal
20. an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928.
21. an agency authorized by the U.S. government to loan money to assist the nation's ailing banks after the stock market crash of 1929 and during the Great Depression that followed.

1. enacted to protect U.S. farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign goods
4. cash payments
5. the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
7. the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
9. intended to lower the cost of home ownership by creating a network of government-sponsored banks and boards to provide mortgage credit.
11. buy now pay later
12. gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans
13. decline of prices
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16. Americans began to build their own camps on the edges of cities, where they lived in shacks and other crude shelters