Depression

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Across
  1. 3. Due to high crop demands and costly equipment, these people actually faced difficult times during the 20s.
  2. 4. Elected president in 1932. (abbv.)
  3. 6. Orphaned mining engineer from Iowa who graduated from Stanford.
  4. 7. Its stock went from $400 a share to $283 on October 24th, 1929.
  5. 8. This dropped 21 points in one hour on October 23rd, 1929.
  6. 10. To offset the lack of buying power that lower wage earners had in comparison to the wealthy, the lower wage earners would often buy products on this.
  7. 12. Depression era photographer.
  8. 15. Advised banks to halt on loans to investors. (abbv.)
  9. 16. In spite of poverty, these were in more homes at the end of the Depression that when it started.
  10. 17. Sponsored by soap companies, these became popular on the radio to women in the 1930s.
  11. 18. Named used to describe makeshift “shantytowns” for the homeless set up in cities during Hoover’s presidency.
  12. 19. Closed several Detroit plants and put 75,000 people out of work in August of 1931.
  13. 21. Wrote The Grapes of Wrath which was about Dust Bowl victims.
  14. 23. Provided old-age pensions, disability, and unemployment benefits. (abbv.)
  15. 24. Raised farm prices by paying farmers to have lower output. (abbv.)
  16. 25. Gave unemployed jobs in construction and the arts. (abbv.)
  17. 28. Describes the people mostly against FDR’s programs due to having to raise taxes to finance them.
  18. 32. Unemployment for this group was around 50% in 1932.
  19. 34. Scrutinized FDR’s programs as being unconstitutional because he wanted to increase its members.
  20. 37. Architectural icon that was finished in 1931 and seemed to provide hope for Americans. (Last word is abbv.)
  21. 38. When investors gamble on high-risk stocks to make a quick profit.
  22. 39. Minimum wage in 1936.
  23. 42. 1936 Republican candidate’s home state.
  24. 43. Type of economics in which the government aids the top of the economic pyramid so that its production will create jobs and those with jobs could now have more purchasing power.
  25. 47. The policy by which problems could be best solved at the local and state levels.
  26. 48. Largest female occupation during the Depression.
Down
  1. 1. Due to its over-dramatization, many people really thought the world was being attacked by aliens while listening to its broadcast.
  2. 2. Name of the photograph, taken by Lange, that many feel embodied the plight of Americans at the time.
  3. 4. “Chats” that FDR gave over the radio.
  4. 5. Provided jobs to unmarried men to work on conservation and development projects. (abbv.)
  5. 8. Cartoon giant that addressed the problems of the Depression through the help of his “rodent”.
  6. 9. To purchase a stock at only a fraction of the cost and borrow the rest.
  7. 11. Ruined farms in the Great Plains during the Depression. It was due to too much intensive farming earlier in the century and a drought that struck for four years during the 30s.
  8. 13. What happens when overproduction and under-consumption are prevalent.
  9. 14. Proposal to set up programs to offset the problems of the Depression.
  10. 18. When a homeless person went looking for work, he would take his pocket linings out to show potential employers and they were called this.
  11. 20. Raised tariffs on foreign good above 55%, the highest in history.
  12. 22. October 29th, 1929.
  13. 26. Sponsored the construction of dams, reservoirs, electric plants, etc; (abbv.)
  14. 27. Insured banks. (abbv.)
  15. 29. Act that legalized collective bargaining and allowed wqrkers to form unions.
  16. 30. Gradient by which a president is assessed on their achievements early in their presidency.
  17. 31. This economic theory became more popular in contrast to capitalism during the Depression.
  18. 33. One of the first institutions to feel the effects of the Depression, they all closed for four days in 1932.
  19. 35. Total amount of money the government has borrowed and has yet to pay back.
  20. 36. What the “agencies” were known as.
  21. 40. Hoover suggested this over public assistance in helping out the poor at the beginning of the Depression.
  22. 41. Largest grossing movie ever, it was a hit in the 30s due to its ability to have belief that there was a better life.
  23. 44. Debutting in 1938, it was the first great "superhero" comic and help reassure Americans that a normal, mild-mannered person, can overcome hardships.
  24. 45. Rose from 3.7% to close to 25% from 1929 to 1933.
  25. 46. Term used for Dust Bowl refugees.
  26. 49. Regulated the stock market and protected investors. (abbv.)