New Deal Crossword
Across
- 5. Established under the National Industrial Recovery Act, it hired the unemployed to build roads, sewage-disposal plants, subways, educational buildings, etc.
- 7. Passed in 1935, it forced employers to bargain collectively with unions.
- 10. the temporary closing of banks to promote deposits.
- 13. Provided jobs to millions of young men who sent some of their income back home to support their family.
- 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps is an example of this "R".
- 17. Act where the government paid farmers to reduce their acreage or plow under crops already in the fields.
- 19. A part of the Second New Deal that built highways, roads, parks, public buildings, bridges, and other public works.
- 20. Long term prevention to fix the system.
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- 1. Created a minimum wage and outlawed child labor.
- 2. Given the task to regulate wages, working hours, and prices and establish recognition of trade unions.
- 3. Significantly increased the income taxes which some people who made over one million had to pay up to 75% of their income worth of taxes.
- 4. Forced the separation of commercial and investment banks.
- 6. Required sellers of securities to have full disclosure with their investors.
- 8. It's goal was to improve the economic state of the Tennessee River Valley but left the region with severe environmental detriments.
- 9. The agency formed under this Act refinanced 1/5 of all farm mortgages.
- 11. Formed a corporation to refinance individual home mortgages at low interest.
- 12. Act that gave 500 million dollars in loans and grants to states to give to the unemployed.
- 14. Restore housing, farming, industry, and banking.
- 15. The legislation that prohibited the hoarding and export of gold.
- 18. Created a national program of insurance for the elderly, survivors, and unemployed.