The Great Depression
Across
- 3. provided jobs that helped with parks and the environment
- 5. people would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck
- 10. buying stocks on credit, only buying 10% of the stock's actual value
- 11. the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of western industrialized world
- 13. created social security
- 14. ran against Franklin Roosevelt and thought that the government should not help the poeple
- 15. herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt ran against each other
Down
- 1. 16.4 million stocks were sold in one day on the stock market and it completely collapsed
- 2. natural disaster of drought, high winds and dust that destroyed all crops and prevented use of farm land for years and worsened the depression
- 4. created by leaders of the social Gospel Movement to feed the homeless daily
- 6. 4 million Americans lost their homes so they were forced to create their own
- 7. progressive president during the Great Depression and WW2
- 8. provided jobs for the unemployed
- 9. made the banks more secure and trustworthy
- 12. supported farmers
- 13. made the stocks more safe and usable