The Great Depression
Across
- 4. loan from a bank.
- 6. event on Oct. 29, 1929 when the value of almost every stock in the U.S. lost value, causing the beginning of the recession
- 9. supply electricity in the Tennessee River basin and nearby areas. Also control of floods.
- 10. without a job.
- 11. jobs building bridges, roads, and buildings, and in the arts.
- 12. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs and policies to help economic recover during the 1930’s.
- 13. Great plains farmland that was destroyed by drought and the overplanting of crops in the 1930’s.
Down
- 1. place where food is offered for free or for a very low cost to those in need.
- 2. hired single, unemployed men ages 18-25 to build and maintain state and national parks, making $30 a month.
- 3. money that is owed.
- 5. town or part of a town of shacks.
- 7. upper part of the soil.
- 8. period of 10 years of business weakness and economic hardship that affected the world.