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What happened on Black Tuesday?
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A record number of people tried to sell their stocks
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Who was the first woman to serve on the cabinet?
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Frances Perkins
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Soon after the stock market crash, Herbert Hoover attempted to help the economy by doing what?
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Building the Boulder Dam and encouraging businesses to work with each other
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The Dust Bowl created a migration of people moving mainly where?
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West
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The phrase "buying on margin" refers to a way of purchasing what?
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Stock
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In the election of 1928, who announced "We shall soon be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation"?
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Hervert Hoover
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What did not precede the onset of The Great Depression?
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Bankers refusing to make loans to people to make stock purchases
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During the 1920's, what increased?
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Farmer's debts
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What was one thing that did not cause The Dust Bowl?
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Poor nutrient quality of the soil of the great plains
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What was the first major action F.D. Roosevelt took as president?
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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What New Deal program was designed to reform the country?
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Social Security Act
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In calling shantytowns "Hoovervilles". people conveyed their what?
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Disgust with Hoover
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FDR's strengths as a communicator were best illustrated in his what?
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Fireside chats
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What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in FDR's administration?
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She was an important adviser on domestic policy
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Those who favor fewer government control are called what? and what party do they belong to?
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Conservatives / Republican party
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