The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 1. an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States
  2. 7. guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs.
  3. 11. A collective action taken during the auction of a foreclosed property to force the sale of the property at a low price, then returning the property to its previous owner.
  4. 12. Ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America.
  5. 15. a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
  6. 16. an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
Down
  1. 2. a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks and other businesses.
  2. 3. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
  3. 4. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States
  4. 5. a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve conflicts
  5. 6. an American documentary photographer and photojournalist
  6. 8. an American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression
  7. 9. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
  8. 10. A period of severe dust storms that damaged american and canadian prairies in the 1930’s.
  9. 13. far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power
  10. 14. borrowing money from a broker in order to purchase stock.