Great Depression Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. 1935 program to support the elderly and unemployed
  2. 3. Group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington to demand early payment
  3. 5. Series of programs and reforms introduced by FDR to combat the Depression
  4. 7. Movement of people fleeing the Dust Bowl in search of work and better living
  5. 10. Makeshift shantytowns built during the Great Depression
  6. 11. Nickname for migrant farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl, especially to California
  7. 12. Widespread joblessness that affected millions during the 1930s
  8. 14. Farmers who lost land during the Dust Bowl and sought better conditions
  9. 15. Place where shares are bought and sold; collapsed in 1929
  10. 16. Day the stock market crashed in 1929
  11. 18. President who led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII
  12. 19. Region of the Great Plains severely affected by drought and dust storms
Down
  1. 1. New Deal program that provided jobs in natural resource conservation
  2. 4. Area hit hardest by Dust Bowl storms
  3. 6. Informal radio addresses given by FDR to reassure the public
  4. 8. Novel by John Steinbeck about Dust Bowl migrants
  5. 9. Producing more goods than could be sold, worsening the Depression
  6. 13. Temporary closing of banks in 1933 to prevent further failures
  7. 17. Economic condition where prices fall and money gains value
  8. 20. Places that provided free meals to the hungry during the Depression