Great Depression/New Deal

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Across
  1. 2. radio announcements by FDR that updated the nation on the status of the Great Depression
  2. 6. era in American history in which the economy was in severe decline and millions were out of work
  3. 9. the goal of Roosevelts New Deal programs were referred to as
  4. 11. program created to put young men to work building roads, parks and planting trees
  5. 14. October 29, 1929, the day the market collapsed
  6. 15. FDR declares this immediately after taking office targeting banks
  7. 16. the creation of this government group was formed to keep a watch full eye on the stock market and trading
  8. 20. this established the work week at 40 hours and established a minimum wage
  9. 23. the negative nickname given to shantytowns throughout the city
  10. 24. the percentage of Americans out of work at the height of the Great Depression
  11. 25. the mid-west turned into this when fields and grasslands were over plowed and drought struck
Down
  1. 1. Roosevelts programs that were created to offer opportunities to Americans
  2. 3. investors purchase a small percentage of a stock in a company and borrow the res
  3. 4. this New Deal program was created in order to protect American bank accounts up to 5,000 dollars
  4. 5. this New Deal program was created to bring flood control and electricity to underdeveloped areas in the South
  5. 7. paid farmers to not overproduce crops creating a demand
  6. 8. people waited to receive free food donated from charities or other public agencies
  7. 10. government policy of a "hands-off" approach to big business
  8. 12. winner of the presidential election of 1932
  9. 13. group of FDR advisors that worked to help the American people
  10. 17. provided financial payments to the elderly and unemployed
  11. 18. program created to build schools and libraries in rural areas
  12. 19. winner of the presidential election of 1928
  13. 21. group of WW1 veterans that marched on Washington D.C. demanding money
  14. 22. a key industry that was in trouble at the beginning of 1920s
  15. 23. established during Hoover administration designed to raise tariffs to protect American business