The Great Depression: GR1 Terms

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Across
  1. 5. _____________ economics. The idea that it was not the federal government's job to interfere in the economy.
  2. 7. groups of homeless people living in canvas tents or shacks made of scrap wood, cardboard, etc.
  3. 9. nickname for the shantytowns on the outskirts of cities
  4. 11. the practice of buying stocks, real estate, etc. to sell later at a profit
  5. 13. name given to drought stricken Southern Plains in the 1930s
  6. 14. _______ Army. Veterans of WW1 who camped in Washington, DC in hopes of receiving a promised bonus in pay early
  7. 15. period of general prosperity
  8. 16. US president at the time the Great Depression began
Down
  1. 1. seize property to sell at an auction for whatever the bank can get for it
  2. 2. manufacturers produce more goods than they can sell
  3. 3. refuse to pay
  4. 4. Black _________. The stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression.
  5. 6. a drop in consumer demand
  6. 8. farmers who escaped the Dust Bowl by moving west to California
  7. 10. someone who earns a commission by buying and selling stocks for others on the stock market
  8. 12. unemployed men who rode the railroad freight cars.
  9. 13. period without rainfall
  10. 17. __________ on the bank. When large groups of investors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time out of fear that the bank may fail.