The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 5. President that signed "The New Deal"
  2. 9. had authority to set prices, minumum wage, and maximum hours.Later deemed unconstitutional
  3. 11. process by which the unions negotiate contracts
  4. 13. FDR's program to combat depression through government spending and relief
  5. 14. migrant famers who left the Great Plains and headed west
  6. 15. severe drought and dust storms around the Great Plains
  7. 17. FDR's method of using the radio to communicate plans to public
  8. 20. Agricultural act that would later be deemed unconstitutional
  9. 22. shanty towns built for the homeless out of scraps
Down
  1. 1. Federal program that provides retirement and disability insurance
  2. 2. law guaranteed workers the right to form unions and practice collective bargaining
  3. 3. first lady of FDR and humanitarian and political activist
  4. 4. law that set a minimum working wage at 25 cents
  5. 6. condition when the supply of goods exceeds demands
  6. 7. provided jobs through government funded construction jobs
  7. 8. unemployed veterans demanding war payments
  8. 10. commission set to regulate stock exchange
  9. 12. President during the collapse of the Stock Market
  10. 16. long lines outside soup kitchens during the depression
  11. 18. FDR's plan to increase number of Supreme Court justices
  12. 19. FDR's act to shut down banks for inspection monetary provisions
  13. 21. Novel written by John Steinbeck about Great depression