Life During the Great Depression

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