The Great Depression
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During the 1920s the economy boomed. But there were economic problems under the surface.
Topics of this game:
- government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand
- when the overall price level decreases so that inflation rate becomes negative
- was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
- practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits
- $2 billion to save banks, insurance companies and railroads
- economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses would trickle down to consumers
- white Americans tried to coerce Mexican immigrants and their families to go back to Mexico
- hid the beginning problems of the Great Depression and caused people to go into debt
- World War I veterans seeking the bonus Congress had promised them
- system in which a fermer paid rent to a landowner for use of the land.
