The Great Depression
Across
- 6. Amendment that banned the manufacturing, sale, and consumption of alcohol
- 9. Curbed the Democrats ability to control elections with federal handouts
- 12. Administration created by congress in 1933 to help farmers
- 14. Gave women the right to vote
- 15. Raised the tax on foreign goods to nearly 60%
- 17. Got rid of the amendment that banned alcohol
- 18. A fear of communist revolution on U.S. soil
- 19. Famous trial that debated over evolution and the beliefs of the bible
- 20. Recession caused by Franklin Delano Roosevelts decision to cut back on deficit spending
Down
- 1. Government secretaries took bribes to allow people to drill for oil on federal land
- 2. Established a national yearly quota for immigration
- 3. Plan to save the European economy and enrich the U.S. by adjusting Germany's war reparations
- 4. Reduced the national immigration quota for each foreign country
- 5. Put millions of young men to work on conservation projects throughout the U.S.
- 7. A group of 20,000 WWI veterans who marched into D.C. to demand the army bonuses congress had promised them
- 8. Established pensions for the elderly, handicapped, and unemployed
- 10. Massive crash of the U.S. stock market also known as "Black Tuesday"
- 11. Aimed to end the depression with his "New Deal" programs
- 13. Legalized labor unions right to organize and bargain collectively
- 16. Became president after the death of Warren G. Harding