Life During the Great Depression
Across
- 5. The government set up this insurance for the jobless.
- 6. These were recently raised, costing the U.S. lots of money in trade.
- 7. Had to sell their goods for lower prices, resulting in not enough of an income to produce more goods.
- 9. Many of these people were broke after the stock market crashed.
- 10. People had a lot of this after the Stock Market crashed.
Down
- 1. Many homeless and jobless Americans stood in these lines where they would get watery soup and a crust of stale bread.
- 2. Little camps or many shacks were homeless people lived together, named after President Hoover whom they held responsible for the economic crisis.
- 3. Passed the security act, the first step in improving the American economy.
- 4. This was doing very well through the twenties until people started selling their shares.
- 8. When congress closed the banks for four days,and when they opened they had more money deposited than was taken out, ending the bank crisis.