The great depression cross word
Across
- 3. – President blamed for early Depression problems
- 8. – Lack of rain causing crop failure
- 10. – Government programs to help the economy recover
- 12. – Sudden collapse of stock prices in 1929
- 13. – Severe worldwide economic downturn in the 1930s
- 14. – President who created the New Deal
- 15. – Law passed to regulate banks and stock market
- 17. – Banks shutting down and people losing savings
- 19. – Farmers leaving their land due to hardship
- 20. – Program that provided jobs building roads and parks
Down
- 1. – Period of economic decline lasting years
- 2. – Day in October 1929 when the market crashed
- 4. – Massive storm of dust that destroyed farms
- 5. – People who traveled looking for work
- 6. – Temporary housing areas for the homeless
- 7. – Region hit hardest by dust storms
- 9. – People without jobs
- 11. – Economic system based on private business ownership
- 16. – Bread lines and free food centers
- 18. – Program that gave money to the elderly