The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 1. The day the stock market crashed (October 29, 1929)
  2. 2. Lines formed by people waiting for free food
  3. 6. Belief that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
  4. 9. Downward trend in stock prices
  5. 10. Collections of makeshift shelters built by homeless people
  6. 12. Novelist who wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) to portray Mississippi during the Great Depression
  7. 14. Employed young men on public-works projects
  8. 15. Insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000
  9. 17. Formed to aid a rural seven-state region that was scarred by deforestation and frequent flooding
  10. 18. The purchase of stock using borrowed money,something that needs the bull market to continue
  11. 19. her most famous photograph is called the Migrant Mother
  12. 20. a policy used when customers did not have enough money at the time
  13. 22. Employed people to do art, public-works, and research projects
  14. 25. Secretary of the Treasury who wanted American businesses to deal with the crisis on their own
  15. 27. Was one of FDR’s most important political assets
  16. 29. Upward trend in stock prices
  17. 31. Successful program presented in the 1930s to fight the Great Depression
  18. 32. Midwestern artists popular in the 1930s who stressed local folk themes and customs in their work
  19. 33. Provided unemployment benefits, pensions for the elderly, and survivor’s insurance
Down
  1. 1. The day investors caused a panic on Wall Street by selling their stock (October 24, 1929)
  2. 2. it was designed to stop massive withdrawals
  3. 3. Someone who was against directly aiding Americans in need
  4. 4. the total value of all goods and services produced by a country in a given year
  5. 5. Recognized rights of labor, to organize and bargain collectively; regulated labor practices
  6. 7. Mutual-aid societies formed by Mexican American communities to help local residents
  7. 8. Theory in which industries increase workers and production during prosperous time but when cut back and lay off workers cause depression
  8. 11. Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930s after a severe drought struck the region
  9. 13. gave money to stabilize troubled banks, insurance companies, railroad companies, and other institutions
  10. 16. Someone who worked for direct relief to aid America’s unemployed
  11. 21. Provided job training and work for people ages 16-25; provided part-time jobs for needy students
  12. 23. The high tariff that contributed to the economic downturn of the 1930s
  13. 24. Action the GM workers started due to their frustration of factory conditions
  14. 26. Regulated the securities market
  15. 28. The New Deal programs were based off of this British economist’s theories
  16. 30. Group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand immediate payment of their pension bonuses