Chapter 31

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Across
  1. 4. Though FDR didn't support an anti-lynching law, he did establish a "_____" of major black leaders
  2. 6. Poor farming practices (like dry farming) coupled with high winds led to the _____ throughout the 1930s
  3. 8. Roosevelt's popular radio addresses to the American people were known as "_____"
  4. 9. FDR's secret weapon was his wife _____, a "champion of the dispossessed".
  5. 11. Father _____ led the conservative charge against the New Deal
  6. 12. allowed people to borrow most of the cost of the stock, making down payments as low as 10%.
  7. 13. Major labor organizer of this period, founder of the CIO = _____
Down
  1. 1. The New Deal created so many changes to America that it might rightly be called the _____
  2. 2. The Judiciary Reorganization Bill (also known as the _____) was an attempt by FDR to change the makeup of the Supreme Court and was roundly condemned
  3. 3. The _____ of 1933 proposed to solve the "farm problem" by reducing agricultural production by paying farmers a subsidy not to farm parts of their land
  4. 4. October 29, 1929 (also known as _____), was the day the Stock Market crashed
  5. 5. The Depression's most famous photograph (Migrant Mother) was taken by _____, paid for by the works progress administration
  6. 7. The _____ was Steinbeck's most famous novel, documenting the Dust Bowl and one family's trek to CA
  7. 8. In probably FDR's best speech, he motivated America by reminding them that "the only thing we have to fear is _____".
  8. 10. The _____ lasted from 1929-1939, or even 1941 depending on which historian you ask.