Great Depression & New Deal Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. President during the start of the Great Depression who believed that the Government shouldn’t get involved
- 3. Believed that the Government should get involved in getting the people out of the Depression
- 7. Stands for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and insured peoples money in banks so that people would not lose their savings in case of a bank failure
- 8. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were round up in the U.S. and sent to Mexico
- 9. An attempt by FDR to get Supreme Court justices who sided with him
- 10. The governments ability to control how much money is in the economy
- 11. Huge dust storms in the Midwestern United States and buried homes and destroyed crops
- 12. Provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance if they died early
Down
- 1. Created to watch over stock market, prevent fraud, and guard against another stock market crash
- 4. Policy put in place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to try and pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression
- 5. Purchasing stocks by making a small down payment and borrowing the rest
- 6. Shantytowns of the homeless and unemployed.