The Great Depression and New Deal
Across
- 2. President who thought the Great Depression was normal
- 3. Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits
- 9. President of the US who started the New Deal
- 12. New Deal program that built dams in Tennessee
- 13. Radio broadcasts of FDR assuring Americans
- 15. General term to describe Dust Bowl refugees
- 16. FDR threatened this to get his way
- 17. Programs and legislation passed to combat the Depression
- 19. local and state government act as agents of relief
Down
- 1. Percent of workers out of working during the Depression
- 4. Economic theory that focused on public works projects
- 5. The number of goals in the first New Deal
- 6. Makeshift shanty towns set up by homeless people during the Depression
- 7. Theory that holds that financial benefits given to the top will ____________ down to consumers
- 8. WWI vets who demanded early bonus payment
- 10. New Deal program that brought electricity to rural areas
- 11. Central/Southern Great Plains in the 1930s
- 14. Process by which government officials return persons to their country of origin
- 18. What many Americans felt during the Depression