1929

2. severe drought and dust storm.
5. borrowing money to help pay for stocks.
6. old-age insurance program.
9. Works Progress Administration.
12. making high-risk investments.
13. massive withdrawals of cash by depositors, terrified that their banks would fail.
15. the president when the depression began.

1. shantytowns for the homeless.
3. raising U.S. import duties to record levels.
4. Tuesday nickname for the day the stock market crashed.
7. army veterans protesting for pay.
8. when stock prices are expected to rise.
10. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (bank insurance).
11. economist advocating government spending.
14. the Democratic candidate who beat Hoover by a landslide in the 1932 presidential election.