Lessons 4, 5, 6 SS (next Wensday)

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Cards (21)

  • Company Union
    A labor organization limited to a single company that is controlled by management
  • Sabotage
    The secret destruction of property or interference with production
  • Anarchist

    A person who opposes organized government
  • Deport

    To forcibly remove from a country
  • Quota System
    A system that limits the number of certain kinds of people admitted to an institution or country; beginning in the 1920s, a system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to immigrate to the United States
  • Great Migration

    The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North during the early to mid-1900s
  • On Margin

    A practice that allows people to buy stock by making a downpayment of a portion of the full price and borrowing to cover the rest of the price
  • Great Depression

    The most severe economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929
  • Bankrupt
    Unable to pay debts
  • Soup Kitchen
    A place where food is provided to the needy at little or no charge
  • Public Works

    The construction of government-funded public buildings, roads, dams, and other public structures
  • Hoovervillie
    A group of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression
  • Bonus Army
    A group of veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a World War I bonus
  • Bank Holiday

    One or more weekdays when banks are closed; during the Great Depression, a four-day period when the federal government ordered banks closed
  • Fireside Chat
    A radio speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt while in office
  • Hundred Days
    The first hundred days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, when much New Deal legislation was enacted
  • New Deal

    The program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression
  • Collective Bargaining

    A process by which a union representing a group or workers negotiates with management for a contract
  • Pension
    A sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire
  • Deficit Spending
    Spending by government greater than its income
  • National Debt
    The total amount of money that the government of country owes to the companies, countries, etc.