Ch.11 Crossword Puzzle Review by Matthew Delval
Across
- 2. gave outdoor jobs to young men, such as planting trees and draining swamps. Members of the lived in camps supervised by army vised by army officers and received free uniforms and food. They were required to send most of their pay home to their families.
- 6. a shantytown built during the Depression
- 7. stablished in 1933 as one of President Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal programs, providing jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley, an area that spans seven states in the South
- 8. created to insure deposits in banks so that people would no longer have to worry about losing their savings in the event of a bank failure.
- 9. A group of World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots
- 10. provided loans to farm owners facing foreclosure
Down
- 1. the protection that a society provides to individuals and households to ensure access to health care and to guarantee income security, particularly in cases of old age, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner
- 3. a day on which banks are officially closed in an effort to stem bank failures and ultimately restore confidence in the financial system
- 4. a plan proposed by FDR to Congress that the President should be allowed to appoint a new Justice to the Court for each Justice who did not retire on reaching age 70.
- 5. the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s