Great Depression Vocabulary
Across
- 2. 1933-1935 program created by President Roosevelt to fight the depression
- 4. labor union; included skilled and unskilled workers; open to women and minorities
- 7. Largest labor union; more selective that CIO
- 8. series of radio talks in which FDR explained his policies in a casual style
- 9. World War I veterans who came to Washington seeking early payment of bonuses for wartime service
- 10. March 9 to June 1933 congressional session in which many laws designed to fight the Depression were passed
- 11. 1935-1937 extension of Roosevelt's First New Deal
- 12. region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust forms
Down
- 1. law creating fund for assisting retired workers and the unemployed
- 3. arrangement for delaying payment of a loan or purchase
- 5. the serious and world-wide economic decline in the 1930s
- 6. Constitutional amendment moving presidential inauguration from March to January