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Across
  1. 1. federal _____ insurance cooperation
  2. 4. Great Plains experienced a drought
  3. 6. believed that the economy would improve soon
  4. 10. 13 million shares
  5. 12. moved to California because of the dust bowl
  6. 14. organized system for buying and selling shares
  7. 15. borrowed their money from banks
  8. 16. suffered losses when farmers defaulted
  9. 19. slid into an economic crisis called the Great Depression
Down
  1. 2. the investors and brokers would not make enough money to pay off the loans
  2. 3. dust bowl
  3. 5. 75 percent of Americans lived in poverty
  4. 7. did not have the money to buy stocks, so they bought on margin
  5. 8. homeless shelter during the depression
  6. 9. that day became known as that
  7. 11. pay monthly pensions to retired people
  8. 13. were forced to look for work
  9. 17. Emergency Banking Relief Act
  10. 18. were hungry during the great depression
  11. 20. Congress created the Works Progress Administration