arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election
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arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate., Former governor of New York who ran for President against Herbert Hoover. He was against Prohibition.
a measure of stock market prices based on 30 leading companies of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
Purching stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929
The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
a law, enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in U.S. history, worsening the depression in America and abroad.
Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard. During the Depression they were also called "Hoovervilles"