Great Depression

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  1. dust bowl
    a region subject to dust storms
  2. Great Plains
    a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
  3. prairie
    a treeless grassy plain
  4. geographical area
    a demarcated area of the Earth
  5. bank run
    the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail
  6. bank withdrawal
    the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank
  7. Great Depression
    the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
  8. economic crisis
    a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  9. slump
    fall or sink heavily
  10. prohibition era
    the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
  11. prohibition
    the action of forbidding
  12. ban
    prohibit especially by law or social pressure
Created on Mon Jan 20 10:13:12 EST 2014 (updated Mon Jan 20 10:18:48 EST 2014)

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