Chapter 9 Vocab
Across
- 2. The day the stock market crashed
- 4. Large number of people from Oklahoma left to go to California
- 8. To make loans to banks, railroads, and agricultural institutions
- 9. Buyers taking a big risk and hoping to make a fortune overnight
- 10. A drought that hit the Great Plains, the soil dried out in all the farms from the Dakotas to Texas
Down
- 1. WWI veterans who marched to Washington to get their $1,00 bonus
- 2. Only made a small cash down payment as low as 10% of the price
- 3. Places where people would put up shacks on unused or public lads
- 5. Wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" it was about people fleeing Oklahoma "Dust Bowl" to find a new life in California
- 6. To take possessions of a property from a nortgagor because of defaults on payments
- 7. Uneven distribution of wealth, Stock market crash, Loss of export, Overproduction, Bonus