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- Commanded British troops in New York & Canada- surrendered his Army @Saratoga 1777
- Polish supporter that helped build important defenses for the Americas
- Subject that people have different views about is called
- Chief of the Mohawks & leader of the 4 Iroquois Nations
- Orginization of colonial governments was based on what
- left dust bowl farms for a new life as migrant farm workers in California
- sec. of labor under FDR: first female cabinet member in US history
- 1939 novel about an Okie family driven from their land, written by John Steinbeck
- in charge of forces that routed the bonus army in Washington DC in 1932
- list the "three B's" who much of the American public blamed for the stock market crash and the ensuing depression?
- FDR's plan to temporarily shut-down all US banks until they proved sound
- multiple makeshift shelters, also known as shanty towns
- located in maryland just across the potomac river, where many bonus army members stayed during the spring and summer of 1932
- purchasing stock by putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest on the value of the stock
- he coined the phrase depression in late 1929
- produced enormous profits for investors as prices rose
- Franklin D. Roosevelts campaign promises in the summer of 1932 called for all of the following EXCEPT:
- share of the companies profits paid to stock brokers
- before the stock market crash of 1929, many economists and politicians of the late 1920's believed that the US had entered a new era in which:
- provided food to the needy during the depression