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- 3. Despite the efforts to halt it, the crash continued beyond black tuesday.
- 9. Gave the Government credit to a number of institutions, such as large industries, railroads, and insurance companies
- 10. a span which the economy grows, then contracts.
- 11. an average of stock prices of major industries, had climbed to 191.
- 12. the highest import tax in history
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- 1. This Amendment repelled the prohibition
- 2. The most severe economic downturn in the nation's history.
- 4. a record 16.4 million shares were sold, compared with the average 4 million to 8 million shares a day earlier in the year
- 5. When so much soil blew out of the central and southern Great Plains that the region became this
- 6. A name for shelters for the homeless
- 7. When local farmers met secretly and agreed to keep bids low during the auction.
- 8. When a low point for Hoover came in the summer of 1932, when 20,000 jobless World War 1 veterans and their families encamped in Washington, D.C.