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