great depression

6. FDR’s second set of programs and reforms to end the Great Depression
8. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use.
10. At the start of the Great Depression a drought hits the Midwest lasting 5 years and causing massive crop failures and devastating dust storms.
13. Payments made by the government for a limited amount of time to a person who has lost their job.
20. The idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
22. A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system.
23. FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression

1. A person who travels from place to place working on farms
2. Underlying foundation on which a community on nation depends, such as roads and schools
3. Grant money from the government to a person or company for an action intended to help the public
4. October 29, 1929. The day the Stock Market Crashed
5. Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire
7. 20,000 World War 1 veterans who were promised $1,000 to be paid by 1945
9. Programs that gave needy people government jobs
11. When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes
12. President of the United States during the Great Depression and most of World War II
14. 12 year economic and social disaster that begins in the United States and eventually spreads throughout the World.
15. A law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax
16. Makeshift towns of homeless people displaced by the Great Depression
17. Financial failure caused by a company not being able to pay its debts
18. aid for the needy
19. The first 100 days of FDR’s presidency
21. Weekly radio broadcast by FDR that reassured the country during the Great Depression