History of the Americas
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- Buying stock when the price is low and selling it when the price rises in hopes of making a quick profit
- Veterans camped out in shantytowns outside of the Capitol
- Federal insurance that paid people over 65, disable, and children whose parents are deceased
- Which system developed on many Southern farms after the Civil War ended?
- Promoted regional development and public planning in one poorest regions in Us. It built dams, operated electoral power plants, manufactured fertilizer, and worked with flooding and erosion
- Photographer during the Great Depression whose photographs help bring aid to farmers out west
- What was founded in 1865 that helped former slaves?
- On the day Abe Lincoln was shot, what was he doing?
- Radio addresses by FDR to tell America what was going on and reassure them on "their level"
- Employed young men ages 18-25. Jobs included outdoors fighting fires, restocking lakes with fish, restoring battle fields, cleaning up cemeteries, etc.
- Provide thousands of jobs, built roads, schools, etc., but also helped writers and artists
- What were the major influences that Thomas Jefferson had when writing the Declaration of Independence?
- Movie that was popular during the Great Depression
- The Catholic priest who used his radio show to oppose the New deal
- Shantytowns developed outside of cities are called
- What snapped America out of the Great Depression
- October 24 , 1929 when a large number of nervous investors began selling all their shares
- What strategically important river did the British want to capture?
- George Washington ordered the Continental Army to cross what river to attack Trenton?
- George Washington marched on Trenton on what holiday?