The Great Depression
Across
- 1. When individuals take all their money out of the bank at one time and banks are forced to close
- 4. WW1 Veterans who went to Washington DC to demand compensation and benefits
- 6. an unrealistic or unfounded rise in economic values
- 8. When companies produced more goods than were being comsumed
- 9. Shanty towns that sprung up around major cities due to high unemployment and homelessness
- 11. When people did not have enough food to sustain their bodies
- 12. When the Great Plains didn't receive enough rain and the land turned dry
Down
- 2. A place where stocks and bonds are sold
- 3. When people could not afford to buy products being sold
- 5. what was October 29, 1929 called?
- 7. purchasing stocks by paying only for a percent and borrowing the rest from a broker
- 10. Migrant workers who moved to California in search of farm work