Great Depression/New Deal

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Across
  1. 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s federal program package of agencies and policies to address the Depression.
  2. 10. 1934 federal agency created to regulate the stock market and prevent fraud.
  3. 11. 1935 law creating old‑age pensions, unemployment insurance, and disability aid funded by payroll taxes.
  4. 12. makeshift shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the early Depression.
  5. 13. 1932 protest by WWI veterans demanding early payment of promised bonuses; dispersed by federal forces.
Down
  1. 1. New Deal program (1935–1942) employing millions in public works and the arts.
  2. 2. severe global economic collapse in the 1930s marked by unemployment, bank failures, and widespread poverty
  3. 3. New Deal relief program employing young men on conservation projects (reforestation, flood control).
  4. 4. 1933 agency insuring bank deposits to prevent bank runs and restore confidence.
  5. 5. FDR’s 1937 proposal to add justices to the Supreme Court to secure rulings favorable to New Deal laws.
  6. 6. New Deal public works project building dams and providing electricity across the South.
  7. 7. New Deal goals: immediate aid, economic revival, and long‑term structural change.
  8. 9. years of over‑farming and a 1933 drought sent storms across the Plains, forcing many farmers west and worsening Depression hardship.