New Deal Crossword
Across
- 3. provided old age insurance for retirees over 65
- 5. provided jobs for single males on conservation projects
- 7. spending more money than the government receives in revenue
- 9. law protecting the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers
- 11. Louisiana politician who was critical of the New Deal for not going far enough
- 12. region hard hit by drought and winds in the early 1930s
- 13. President who believed in rugged individualism and limited government
- 14. program that created jobs in airport construction, roads, painting murals, etc.
- 16. protected bank deposits
- 17. nickname for the day that the bottom fell out of the stock market in 1929
Down
- 1. struck down many of the New Deal programs
- 2. lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies
- 4. aided farmers and regulated crop production
- 6. system of cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor
- 8. social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills
- 10. FDR’s plan to create a sympathetic Supreme Court
- 15. WWI veterans who wanted ore compensation from the federal government