The Great Depression (Review)

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Across
  1. 1. Pres. Hoover's phrase or belief that promoted self-reliance and limited government intervention in people lives
  2. 3. US President who was the governor of New York and is the longest-serving president in US history;president during the Great Depression who started the fireside chats
  3. 6. man who wanted heavy taxes on the rich to provide income for all and had a radio show
  4. 7. amendment that changed the Inaugural date for the President and Congress
  5. 8. radio programs given by President Franklin Roosevelt that would tell the country what's going on and what he was going to do
  6. 9. a very influential and the longest serving First Lady of the US who was an advocate for civil rights and women in the workplace
  7. 10. popular name of Pres.F.D.R.'s diplomatic or foreign policy that was designed to improve relations with Latin America
  8. 13. 1st woman to serve in the US Presidential Cabinet and the Secy.of Labor under FDR
  9. 14. name for a line of people waiting to receive free food during the Great Depression
  10. 15. woman who established the "Black Cabinet"
  11. 17. African American singer who performed at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 with the help of President and First Lady Roosevelt
  12. 18. author of "The Grapes of Wrath" which displayed life in the Dust Bowl
  13. 20. the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression
  14. 21. name for Pres.Franklin Roosevelt's initiatives and programs designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the Great Depression
  15. 22. Pres.F.D.R.'s plan to add new justices to the Supreme Court so it would uphold New Deal laws
Down
  1. 1. agreement that allowed the government to lower US tariffs by as much as 50 percent in exchange for similar reductions by other nations
  2. 2. a place where food is offered free or at very low cost to the needy
  3. 4. name for the group of army veterans who held a demonstration in Washington to get their payments bonuses early
  4. 5. the name for the period of severe dust storms and drought in the Great Plains of the US
  5. 11. person whose slogan was "Two cars in every garage";president at the start of the Great Depression
  6. 12. man who proposed income for the elderly during the Great Depression
  7. 16. name for the group of advisers of President Franklin Roosevelt
  8. 19. name for Oct.29,1929,which is the day of the stock market crashed