Great Depression Crossword
Across
- 2. several laws to help farmers. Allowed government to raise prices of goods and pay farmers to reduce their crop production so there would not be so much extra on the market
- 3. a law passed by the people rather than by the legislature
- 4. New deal program that provides age-old pensions (retirement pay) for workers, the blind, and people with physical disabilities.
- 6. New Deal program that hired young men 17 to 25 years old to work in national parks, national forests, state forests, and campgrounds
- 9. relieving poverty by giving people jobs
- 10. perhaps the greatest symbol of the new deal in MT
- 11. federal policy that gave tribes some limited powers of self-government and encouraged them to strengthen their cultures. Put an end to the allotment system.
Down
- 1. revived unions in Montana after they had been severely weakened during WWI.
- 5. called for immediate, widespread changes in federal Indian policy
- 7. termed used to describe basic facilities such as roads, bridges, water, sewer, and communications
- 8. federal program that tried to pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression