Great Depression

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Across
  1. 4. President at the start of the Depression, criticized for his limited response
  2. 5. New Deal goal aimed at restoring the economy
  3. 8. When a financial institution collapsed and people lost their savings
  4. 10. President who launched the New Deal
  5. 12. New Deal program that gave young men jobs in conservation and public works
  6. 13. Program that provides income for retirees and the unemployed
  7. 16. Environmental disaster that devastated farms in the Great Plains
  8. 17. This rate rose dramatically during the Great Depression
  9. 18. Immediate aid to suffering Americans during the Depression
Down
  1. 1. These gave people jobs building roads, schools, and parks
  2. 2. Shantytown built by the homeless during the Great Depression, named after a U.S. president
  3. 3. Risky stock investments made in hopes of quick profits
  4. 6. One cause of the Depression: too many goods, not enough buyers
  5. 7. A place where people waited to receive free food during the Depression
  6. 8. The day the stock market crashed in 1929
  7. 9. Agency created to regulate the stock market
  8. 11. Programs designed to prevent future economic crises
  9. 14. High taxes on imports that hurt international trade during the Depression
  10. 15. A series of programs launched by FDR to combat the Great Depression