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Across
- 4. __Maynard Keynes
- 6. Perkins
- 8. closing the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business.
- 10. union workers sat down to show they wanted better pay
- 11. Congress passed 15 major acts to meet the economic crisis
- 14. business leaders and anti-New Deal politicians from both parties joined together
- 16. to provide government insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amount.
- 17. one ounce of gold equaled a set number of dollars
- 19. __morgenthau
- 20. combined Roosevelt’s love of nature and commitment to conservation with the need to help the unemployed.
- 21. became law in August 1935. Its major goal was to provide some security for the elderly and for unemployed workers.
- 23. consists of five members appointed by the United States President and approved by the Senate
- 25. direct talks FDR held with the American people to let them know what he was trying to accomplish.
Down
- 1. working out conflicts among different interests
- 2. a neutral party would listen to both sides and decide the issues.
- 3. safeguards and relief programs that protected them against economic disaster.
- 5. a new federal agency headed by Harry Hopkins
- 7. borrowing money to pay for his programs
- 9. __packing
- 12. Roosevelt’s confidence that he could make things better contrasted sharply with Hoover’s apparent failure to do anything effective.
- 13. government would pay farmers not to raise certain livestock, such as hogs, and not grow certain crops, such as cotton, corn, wheat, and tobacco
- 15. To take it in
- 18. show how to do it
- 22. let it sit and do its thing
- 24. to regulate the stock market and prevent fraud.