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| 2223702967 | invest | as americans began accumulating wealth, many were encourage to _____ their surplus capital in the stockmarket | 0 | |
| 2223710896 | farmers | the distress of these people was brought about by overproduction and a declining world market | 1 | |
| 2223723092 | thirty | when the market crashed in 1929, american investors lost how many billions of dollars | 2 | |
| 2223733322 | drought | in the summer of 1930, this plagued america and destroyed crops and livestock on farms in eighteen states | 3 | |
| 2223740394 | sixteen | within a week of "black friday" how many million shares of stock were dumped or sold on the market | 4 | |
| 2223756575 | business | when herbert hoover became president in march 1929 ______ was booming. The motto of the day was, "spend your way to prosperity" | 5 | |
| 2223762245 | trains | many unemployed men rode the brake rods on _____ as their choice of transportation while looking for work | 6 | |
| 2223766397 | Smith | in the election of 1928, herbert hoover defeated this democratic candidate by carrying forty of the 48 states | 7 | |
| 2223773169 | rockne | in 1931 this great football coach was killed in a plane crash. his players at notre dame idolized him and his opponents respected him | 8 | |
| 2223779155 | margin | buying stocks on ______ meant purchasing corporate shares on credit with a small cash down payment | 9 | |
| 2223783394 | bull | a _____ market refers to high and rising prices on the stock market | 10 | |
| 2223786312 | Iowa | herbert hoover was born in this state | 11 | |
| 2223787826 | poverty | in his acceptance speech, president hoover remarked, "we are nearer to the final triumph over ______ than ever before in the history of any land" | 12 | |
| 2223795250 | bear | a ____ market refers to low and falling prices on the stock market | 13 | |
| 2223801373 | speculation | the great depression of 1929 was the result of many causes including the _____ of investors in the stock market | 14 | |
| 2223806718 | temporary | when the market crashed president hoover indicated that it was a ____ panic and that american business conditions were sound | 15 | |
| 2223811474 | moratorium | president hoover tried to prevent the total financial collapse of germany by declaring a postponment of war debts. What was it called | 16 | |
| 2223813590 | prohibition | this was the major political issue of the 1928 presidential campaign | 17 | |
| 2223820675 | tariffs | some economists believed these were a factor for contributing to the depression because they prevented foreign countries from selling their products in the united states, which was necessary to purchase american goods | 18 | |
| 2223823242 | twelve | by 1932 the depression had caused over _____ million american workers to lose their jobs | 19 | |
| 2223827100 | dawes | president hoover appointed this man as the chairman of the reconstruction finance corporation | 20 |
