The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 5. a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for free or sometimes at a below-market price.
  2. 6. was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States
  3. 10. was a period of severe dust storms
  4. 12. is a humanitarian aid organization
  5. 13. was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928.
  6. 15. was a group of 43,000 demonstrators
  7. 16. created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors.
  8. 18. is a combination of two programs: a price floor and government purchase of surplus.
  9. 19. involves getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.
  10. 20. the ability to borrow money or access goods or services with the understanding that you'll pay later.
Down
  1. 1. was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government.
  2. 2. Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
  3. 3. a line of people waiting to receive free food.
  4. 4. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
  5. 7. is a piece of legislation passed in 1932.
  6. 8. is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services.
  7. 9. is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.
  8. 11. the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
  9. 14. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings.
  10. 17. was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.