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1. Directions: Use this graphic organizer to explain how each of the following practices weakened the economy and caused the stock market to crash.

Stock Market Crash

Margin

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Speculation

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Margin Call

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Bull Market

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Directions: Answer each of the following questions about the chapter with a complete sentence. Include the listed vocabulary words in your answer.

2. Why were soap operas so popular in the 1930s? (soap operas) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What role did foreclosures play in the government passing relief acts? (foreclose, relief) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why did public works not improve unemployment? (public works)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Content Vocabulary

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Academic VocabularyDirections: Use your textbook to find these academic vocabulary words for the chapter. Write the sentence in which each word is found (context). Then, write a definition of each term in your own words.

5. invest Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

6. suspend Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

7. community Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

United States History and Geography: Modern Times

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