The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 5. leading measure of stock market trends
  2. 6. total goods and services produced by the nation plus income from citizens
  3. 8. act that raised customs duties and made it more difficult for European business to sell goods in the U.S.
  4. 9. purchasing stocks using credit
  5. 11. 1924 president
  6. 12. 1928 president
  7. 13. most prolonged and greatest economic downturn in American history
  8. 16. program that deported around 1 million people of Mexican descent
  9. 18. unequal distribution of wealth between wealthiest and rest of population
  10. 19. another name for October 29, 1929
Down
  1. 1. rates of this were skyrocketing during the great depression, caused homelessness and poverty
  2. 2. a group of businesses that manufacture a product, a sector of an economy
  3. 3. a war that was a big cause for large worldwide financial weakness
  4. 4. another name for October 24, 1929
  5. 7. groups formed to buy and sell a lot of stocks
  6. 9. loan used to buy real estate
  7. 10. when a lender (bank) sells the property of the borrower to repay debt
  8. 14. the act of returning someone to their country of citizenship
  9. 15. the industry that drove most of the economy in the 1920s
  10. 17. central bank of the U.S., regulated banking during the Depression