Ch 10 Vocab The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. temporary closed all banks so they could be examined and only the healthy banks were allowed to reopen
  2. 6. making too much of something
  3. 7. unemployed World War I veterans who camped in Washington D.C. to demand early payment of military bonuses
  4. 9. New York governor elected president in the 1932 election
  5. 10. Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day of the stock market crash
  6. 13. radio addresses in which Roosevelt spoke directly to the public
  7. 15. purchasing stocks with borrowed money
  8. 17. insures bank deposits in case of bank failure
  9. 18. dirt or soil is picked up by the wind and moved to another place
Down
  1. 1. US President who did not believe that the federal government was supposed to provide relief for the Great Depression.
  2. 2. New Deal program to build dams to provide electricity in the Tennessee River valley
  3. 4. a person who moves from place to place looking for work, usually travels by train
  4. 5. New Deal program that put many artists, writers, and actors to work preserving culture and memories
  5. 8. severe, economic depression that followed the stock crash of 1929
  6. 11. federal law that started programs to ensure economic wellbeing of citizens who could not provide for themselves
  7. 12. programs developed by Roosevelt to aid economic recovery
  8. 14. region of the Great Plains affected by extreme drought and dust storms
  9. 16. shantytowns built by unemployed homeless people during the Great Depression; named after President Hoover