Events and Aspects of the Great Depression
Across
- 1. A protest by veterans seeking a bonus promised to them after WWI
- 5. Organization for farmers to take a "holiday" from farming
- 6. Often used to disperse protest crowds
- 9. The worst economic breakdown in US history
- 11. Homeless encampments and shacktowns during the Great Depression
- 12. A severe drought that left the land bare and subject to dust storms
- 13. Cause of the Stock Market crash of 1929 due to bad loans and stock liquidation
- 15. Migrants who fled the Southwest to California and Arizona
Down
- 2. A cause of the Dust Bowl that involved farming and animals
- 3. Dust storms that could coat ships, homes, food, and skin
- 4. A sudden and steep decline in U.S. Stock prices.
- 7. Something that happened to overplowed land resulting in dust storms
- 8. Those effected more by the Great Depression than others
- 10. Roughly the amount of time, in years, that the Great Depression lasted
- 14. When many clients begin to withdraw their money in fear that the bank will fail soon