New Dealio
Across
- 1. provided more than 4.5 million jobs for your people
- 2. provided small loans for home construction
- 3. Sent unmarried men to plant trees, build parks, roads, and fight soil erosion
- 5. provided financial relief to many households and provided vaccination and literacy classes for many of the impoverished
- 6. national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and public assistance programs for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled. It still exists today
- 7. built 20 dams in Tennessee to control flooding
Down
- 1. an act that allowed for protection of workers rights (like unionizing and such)
- 2. insured bank customers received up to $5,000 of their deposits if their banks should fail
- 4. useful construction jobs such as repairing schools, laying sewer pipes, building roads. However, it was disbanded after only a year
- 5. set the minimum wage at 25 cents/hour and established the 40-hour work week. It also severely limited the use of child labor