The New Deal

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Across
  1. 2. helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and power plants
  2. 4. provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses
  3. 12. provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression
  4. 14. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
  5. 16. authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound
  6. 17. protected the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining
Down
  1. 1. put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects
  2. 3. a goal of the New Deal
  3. 5. organized the first Black cabinet
  4. 6. paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops
  5. 7. created an administration that set fair prices on many products and established labor standards
  6. 8. established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  7. 9. responsible for the most job creation during the New Deal
  8. 10. required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market
  9. 11. FDR's radio talks to the American public
  10. 12. set a national minimum hourly wage and prohibited factory labor for children under sixteen years of age
  11. 13. Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath
  12. 15. First female cabinet member