Great Depression

4. Rose as high as 25%.
5. Result of people losing jobs and were unable to make their mortgage payments.
7. Shanty town built by the homeless.
8. People buy or sell stock based on their guesses and hopes about how well a company will do in the future.
10. High taxes on imports.
12. People of Mexican descent were deported to "reserve" jobs for white people.
13. Banks were giving out loans and the borrowers were unlikely to be able to pay them back.
14. Year in which the Great Depression started.
15. As a result of the Stock Market Crash, people rushed to withdraw their money from banks and banks ran out of money.

1. Helped the needy get free or low-priced food.
2. Paying a small percentage of your own money and borrowing the rest from the bank.
3. Caused by poor land usage and drought.
6. A series of programs that focused on relief, recovery, and reform.
9. Farmers from Oklahoma who moved west in search of jobs during the Great Depression.
11. President Franklin D. Roosevelt talked on the radio to communicate with the American public.