Great Depression Crossword

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