Unit 8 Crossword
Across
- 3. Roman Catholic priest who criticized FDR and fought for a guaranteed annual income and the nationalization of banks
- 4. FDR's collection of programs designed to end the Great Depression
- 7. period of bad economic times when many people were out of work that lasted from 1929 to 1940
- 10. an early supporter of the New Deal turned FDR critic because he wanted to be elected President himself
- 11. October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed
- 13. temporary villages made up of shacks made of scrap material
- 15. provided emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses
- 16. program that would have helped farmers by not allowing food prices to fall below a certain level
- 17. spending more money than the government receives in revenues
- 18. area of the Great Plains in which overfarming and a major drought led to massive dust storms
- 22. an alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party
- 23. won the 1928 presidential election
- 24. with "act"; made companies give accurate information in its stock offerings, later replaced by the SEC
- 25. won the 1932 presidential election
Down
- 1. with "act"; officially guaranteed workers' the right to organize unions and bargain collectively
- 2. buying stocks with borrowed money
- 5. cash or food given directly to poor people
- 6. dam on the Colorado River, funded by Congress to put people back to work
- 8. group of veterans who went to Washington in 1932
- 9. with "act"; lowered mortgage rates in the hopes of helping farmers protect their farms from foreclosure
- 12. physician and health officer who thought FDR wasn't doing enough to help the poor
- 14. an arrangement in which consumers agree to make monthly payments with interest
- 19. buying risk stocks in hopes of a quick profit
- 20. with "tariff act"; raised tariffs in order to protect US manufacturing
- 21. a price equal to what farmers had received in the years between 1910-1914