Great Depression Crossword
Across
- 3. a tool that measures the performance of the stocks of 30 large companies
- 4. A Roman Catholic priest and radio host that started the National Union for Social Justice
- 7. to cover financial losses
- 8. a long period of rising stock prices.
- 9. elected president in 1928
- 11. a monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit.
- 13. buying a stock and only paying a part of the total price and borrowing the rest.
- 16. act of 1933 this act set apart commercial and investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance companies.
- 19. the leader of the United Mine Workers, also helped form the committee for industrial organization.
- 20. passed in 1935 this act created an insurance program that paid people over the age of 65 after they retire.
Down
- 1. passed in 1938, set minimum a wage law and a 44 hour work week
- 2. to seize a property because of defaults on payments
- 5. a project that built dams to control floods and conserve forestland
- 6. created the LIFE magazine which describes how life was during the Great Depression
- 10. closing of banks during the Great Depression
- 12. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations.
- 14. an architect who helped design the hoover dam
- 15. a heavy demand by a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money.
- 17. someone who risks money for financial gain.
- 18. the dam built on the Colorado River and created Lake Mead