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