The Roarin '20s
Across
- 3. The highest import tax in American history to increase jobs by preventing cheaper European goods from entering the country
- 4. Parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas that were hit hard by dry topsoil and high winds that created blinding dust storms
- 5. Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929
- 6. Buying stocks and borrowing money from a bank or broker
- 7. Lines of people waiting to receive food provided by a charity or public organization
Down
- 1. Used allusively to refer to the US money market or financial interests
- 2. Starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation
- 6. This is the nickname for the day the stock market crashed (October 29, 1929)