Hoovervilles & Bonus Marchers

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Across
  1. 3. This word describes the living conditions of the Hoovervilles.
  2. 4. The police were (blank) by veterans with rubbish and rubble.
  3. 7. Congress did this to the idea after fierce debate.
  4. 11. this was done to the camp.
  5. 14. Men from various racial backgrounds lived in the Hooverville without this.
  6. 19. Hoover disagreed with the idea because he wanted to gather this to help tackle the great depression.
  7. 20. The homeless joined together to make this type of town.
  8. 21. The residents called their towns these because they blamed their problems on President Herbert Hoover.
  9. 22. In the biggest Shanty Towns, the population grew to these levels.
  10. 24. This lifestyle did not suit everyone
Down
  1. 1. When the deadline passed, he asked these people to act.
  2. 2. The city politicians quickly realized there was no where else to go for the homeless and did this to the Hooverville in 1932.
  3. 5. Hoover then sent in these people.
  4. 6. Hoover set this for when all veterans should have left their camp.
  5. 8. 5,000 veterans stayed behind to maintain this on the government.
  6. 9. The Bonus Marchers had been defeated with 100 of them injured and one of their children killed, but something regarding Hoover had been destroyed.
  7. 10. Congress had passed a law giving First World War veterans this.
  8. 12. 20,000 people, know as the bonus marchers, marched here in 1932.
  9. 13. In the Hooverville of Seattle, a man named Jesse Jackson declared himself this.
  10. 15. The police returned to the camps to fight the veterans with these this time.
  11. 16. The city government did this to Jackson's settlement
  12. 17. Veterans had to do this to receive the bonus.
  13. 18. veterans lost this while fighting in the First World War.
  14. 23. Veterans wanted this immediately after the Great Depression struck.