20's & Depression Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. / is an independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures.
  2. 7. / preference for locality particularly for ones own area or region.
  3. 9. Hoover / Was an american engineer, buisnessman and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
  4. 11. / a Shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the depression of the early 1930's.
  5. 13. New Deal / was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations eacted in the U.S. during the 30's in response to the Great Depression.
  6. 14. on Margin / the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
  7. 17. Chaplin / an english comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
  8. 18. buying / enabled people to buy goods over an extended period of time.
  9. 19. T / An automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from Oct. 1, 1908 to May 26, 1927
Down
  1. 1. Scare / a promotion of wide-spread fear by society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
  2. 2. / an american statesman, and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the U.S from 1933 to his death in 1945.
  3. 3. packing / was the nickname given by journalists to the unsuccessful Judicial procedures reform bill of 1937.
  4. 4. / the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
  5. 5. / was a generation of young western women in the 1920's who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz and flaunted their disdain.
  6. 6. and Vanzetti / were italian born american anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and paymaster during April 15, 1920
  7. 8. managment / management of a buisness industry, or economy, according to principles of efficiency derived from experiments.
  8. 10. / a native or inhabitant of Oklahoma.
  9. 12. / was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture.
  10. 15. Depression / was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly in the 1930's, originating in the U.S.
  11. 16. Renaissance / Was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York spanning the 1920's.