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