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Across
  1. 3. The process of producing large numbers of goods quickly and cheaply, used by companies like Ford.
  2. 5. Radio addresses given by President Roosevelt to reassure and inform the American public.
  3. 11. Lines where struggling Americans waited for free food during the Depression.
  4. 12. A program that built dams to provide electricity and jobs in the South during the New Deal.
  5. 14. The percentage of people without jobs skyrocketed during the Great Depression.
  6. 15. A New Deal agency that insures bank deposits to prevent future financial panics.
  7. 17. A temporary closing of banks in 1933 to stop massive withdrawals and stabilize the economy.
  8. 21. A government agency that provided jobs in public works projects like roads and bridges.
  9. 23. Shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression, named after the president many blamed for the crisis.
  10. 25. A neighborhood in NY which became the center of major cultural and artistic movement.
  11. 26. An economic slowdown that isn’t as severe as a depression.
Down
  1. 1. A popular fashion trend among young women in the 1920s, characterized by short dresses and bobbed hair.
  2. 2. A group of WWI veterans who protested in Washington, D.C., demanding their promised war bonuses.
  3. 4. Recovery, Reform The three main goals of the New Deal: immediate help, economic rebuilding, and financial system changes.
  4. 6. A manufacturing process that uses a moving conveyor belt to assemble products faster.
  5. 7. Secret bars where alcohol was illegally sold during Prohibition.
  6. 8. The day the stock market crashed in October 1929, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
  7. 9. The nationwide ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933, leading to illegal speakeasies.
  8. 10. A culture of excessive buying and spending, encouraged by advertisements in the 1920s.
  9. 13. A risky practice of buying stocks with borrowed money, which led to the stock market crash.
  10. 16. A term used to describe the economic boom and cultural changes of the 1920s.
  11. 18. A severe drought and dust storms that devastated farmers in the Midwest during the 1930s.
  12. 19. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s set of programs aimed at economic recovery.
  13. 20. The government program that provides financial support to retired and unemployed Americans.
  14. 22. The location where stocks are bought and sold; its collapse in 1929 led to the Great Depression.
  15. 24. Producing more goods than people can buy, which contributed to economic collapse.
  16. 27. A program that provided young men with jobs in conservation and environmental projects.