Great Depression

1. October 29, 1929, the day the Stock Market crashed
5. A law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax
6. A drought in the midwest lasting 5 years and causing crop failures and dust storms
7. FDR's second set of programs and reforms to end the Great Depression
10. The first 100 days of FDR's presidency
11. Makeshift towns of homeless people displaced by the Great Depression, named after Herbert Hoover
12. Programs that gave needy people government jobs
14. 20,000 WW1 veterans who were promised to be paid $1,000 by 1945
16. Payments made by the government for a limited amount of time to a person who has lost their job

1. Financial failure caused by a company not being able to pay its debts
2. When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes
3. President of the U.S during the Great Depression and most of WW1
4. Projects such as highways, parks and libraries built with public funds for public use
5. Grant money from the government to a person or company for an action intended to help the public
8. Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire
9. Aid for the needy, welfare
13. Weekly radio broadcast by FDR that reassured the country during the Great Depression
15. 12 year economic social disaster that began in the U.S
17. FDR's plan to end the Great Depression
18. A person who travels from place to place working on farms
19. The idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
20. Underlying foundation on which a community on nation depends, such as roads and schools
21. A place where shares in corporations are brought and sold through an organized system