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- When a company loses profits, how might a company respond?
- What did you call the protest by WWI veterans due a bonus in 1945 who marched to Washington to demand early payment?
- When there is an overproduction of goods, this is called what? What happens to prices?
- What percentage of people were unemployed during the Great Depression?
- President Hoover was part of what political party?
- What do you call a market for shares of companies?
- President Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plan resulted in which of the following groups gaining control of southern state legislatures?
- Who was a New York Governor and Democratic candidate for President?
- The Radicals in Congress took control of Reconstruction after the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and re-imposed military rule in all of the former Confederate states except
- The Freedmen's Bureau and other radical Republican programs encouraged blacks to become lazy and sponge off of government welfare
- Upon "redeeming" their states, Bourbon Democrats repealed the Radical Republicans' taxes and replaced them with _____
- The practice of sharecropping did not satisfy freedmen's hopes for land ownership, but it did represent a step away from slavery and towards freedom by (select TWO)
- The Freedmen's Bureau protected blacks from manipulative white landlords
- The founders of the Ku Klux Klan saw themselves as the chivalric knights of old, defending _____ from predators, especially black federal soldiers.
- Who was a Union army veteran and Republican candidate for president?
- How did Gettysburg address summarize the civil war?
- This was created to reform, and restore confidence in, the stock market by providing a means to monitor the market and to enforce laws regarding the sales of stocks and bonds
- FDR was supported by and was very popular with the Republican Party.
- This protected the right of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees.
- The Social Security Act did not have a long-term impact on the American economy.