The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. Name for FDR's series of radio addresses to the nation
  2. 5. A program employing young men in environmental practices
  3. 6. The TVA built these to produce electricity
  4. 8. A period of economic hardship and mass unemployment in the 1930s
  5. 12. Farmers who fled the Dust Bowl to California were often called these
  6. 14. The Stock Market Crash that began the Great Depression occurred in this month, 1929
  7. 15. The federal agency providing work for artists, writers and builders
  8. 16. Term for shantytowns of homeless people during the Depression
Down
  1. 1. The region of the US most affected by the Dust Bowl
  2. 2. The act that paid farmers to reduce production
  3. 4. The law that established the program FDR was most proud of
  4. 7. The US Government agency created to insure bank deposits
  5. 8. The environmental disaster that worsened the suffering of the farmers
  6. 9. FDR's plan to combat the Great Depression
  7. 10. A long-term cause of the Depression--unequal distribution of this resource
  8. 11. The term for FDR's first months of aggressive legislation
  9. 13. The Republican president in office when the Depression started