Matching Pairs Unit 7 VocabularyOnline version Understand important terms for our Unit 7 on The Great Depression by Paige Shoemaker 1 redlining 2 The New Deal 3 The Great Depression 4 Dust Bowl 5 monetary policy 6 speculation 7 economy 8 welfare 9 Stock Market 10 Federal Reserve buying stocks in hope of gaining money but with the risk of losing all of your money; a form of gambling with the stock market a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the land in the American and Canadian prairies from 1930 to 1936 a series of programs created by President FDR to end The Great Depression by getting people back to work and creating welfare; lasted from 1933 to 1939 aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need; an agency or program that distributes this money or necessities (food, water, food stamps) actions taken by the Federal Reserve to control how much money is available a federal network of banks that supervise and regulate banking to maintain economic stability in the country a place where public shares of companies are traded, people can make money by selling their trades when the company is doing well but can also lose money if they have a share in a company that does poorly; a way to invest money in businesses the, now illegal, practice of refusing to provide someone a loan or financial help based on where they live the worst economic downturn beginning in the United States but with effects around the world, lasting from 1929 to 1939 a system of buyers and sellers all about how money is made and spent and the trends that influence how much money people have; if the majority of people have more money than they need to survive, the economy is doing well. if the majority does not, the economy is doing poorly.
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