Module 9 Cross Word Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. an agency authorized by the U.S. government to loan money to assist the nation's ailing banks after the stock market crash of 1929 and during the Great Depression that followed.
  2. 5. was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
  3. 6. the reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
  4. 9. the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
  5. 16. is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States
  6. 17. a record of how a person handles money and debt, including credit card accounts and other loans
  7. 18. the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
  8. 19. was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 1928.
  9. 20. a line of needy persons. assembled to receive food given as charity
Down
  1. 1. is a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings.
  2. 2. gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans (estimates vary widely) who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
  3. 4. intended to lower the cost of home ownership by creating a network of government-sponsored banks and boards to provide mortgage credit.
  4. 7. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
  5. 8. getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.
  6. 10. cash payments or “the dole”
  7. 11. prices that the government sets and maintains by buying surplus goods
  8. 12. enacted to protect U.S. farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign goods
  9. 13. The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy lasted more than a decade, beginning in 1929 and ending during World War II in 1941.
  10. 14. a place where people who cannot afford, or do not have the means to feed themselves, can get a free or cheap meal
  11. 15. October 29, 1929