Great Depression Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Aid for the needy
- 4. First 100 days of FDR's presidency
- 7. Drought in the midwest
- 10. Programs that gave needy people government jobs
- 11. The day the Stock Market crashed
- 12. Idea that the gov. should lay a role in economic affairs
- 15. Payments made by the gov. to people who lost their jobs
- 17. Person who travels that works on farms
- 20. Sum of money paid to people after they retire
- 21. FDR's second set of programs
- 22. Underlying foundation on which a nation depends on (roads, schools, etc)
- 23. Place where shares in corporations are bought
Down
- 1. FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
- 2. President of the US during the Great Depression and WW1
- 5. Grant money from the government
- 6. Makeshift towns for homeless people
- 8. Law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax
- 9. 20,000 WW1 veterans marched on Washington
- 13. Projects that included highways, parks, and libraries
- 14. When the gov. spends more money than it collects in taxes
- 16. 12 year economic disaster
- 18. weekly radio broadcast by FDR
- 19. Financial failure caused by a company not paying its debts