US History Great Depression & New Deal Unit
Across
- 5. Roosevelt and Congress made an amendment to the first New Deal, and called it the _____.
- 6. October 29, 1929
- 8. A long and severe recession in an economy or market.
- 9. Has a trunk
- 11. _______ (people) moved West during the Dust Bowl.
- 12. Investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.
- 14. People stand in a _____ to receive food.
- 17. Act passed in 1930 by U.S. Congress.
- 19. Man's best friend
- 20. Flying mammal
- 21. The assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
- 22. WWI veterans were promised a cash bonus when they got home, and camped out infront of the capital called themselves ______.
Down
- 1. One of a series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933.
- 2. People moving west created small towns called________.
- 3. Time period the U.S. went through in 1929.
- 4. A system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, esp. those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the US were laid by the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 7. Large marsupial
- 10. The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. It involved a massive public works program, complemented by the large-scale granting of loans, and succeeded in reducing unemployment by between 7 and 10 million.
- 13. The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
- 15. Reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
- 16. Likes to chase mice
- 18. Giant cloud of topsoil that killed crops and livestock.