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A region in the Great Plains that had a period of drought and dust storms during the 1930's.
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Dust Bowl
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October 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began.
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Black Tuesday
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An especially high import tariff passed by Congress in 1930.
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a high gain.
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Speculation
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Group of World War I veterans and their families who in 1932 protested in Washington D.C., to recieve their pensions early.
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Bonus Army
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Severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until about 1939.
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Great Depression
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Constitutional ammendment, ratified in 1933, that ended Prohibition.
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Twenty-First Ammendment
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Makeshift shelter of the homeless during the early years of the Great Depression.
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Hooverville
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An approach to labor relations in which companies met some of their worker's needs without prompting by unions.
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Welfare Capitalism
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Periodic growth and contraction of a nation's economy.
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Business Cycle
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Total annual value of goods and services that a country produces.
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Gross National Product
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Collapse of the American stock market in 1929.
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Great Crash
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Measure of average stock prices of major industries.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Practice by which investors purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price, borrowing the rest.
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Buying on Margin
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