US History Chapter 18 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a specified amount of money
  2. 5. act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
  3. 6. A long period of rising stock prices
  4. 7. A serial drama on television or radio using melodramatic situations
  5. 10. Regular periodic payment made to pay off the cost of an item when buying on credit
  6. 12. A homeless and usually penniless wanderer
  7. 14. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
  8. 15. To put money into a company in order to gain a future financial reward
  9. 16. persistent and heavy demands by a bank's depositors, creditors or customers to withdraw money
  10. 17. People with common characteristics living in the same area
  11. 18. A person who works in the same, or a similar, profession
Down
  1. 1. Aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
  2. 2. A sudden loss of force, value or effect
  3. 3. A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
  4. 4. Projects such as highways, parks and libraries built with public funds for public use
  5. 5. A number of events that come one after another
  6. 8. to take possession of a property from a mortgager because of defaults on payments
  7. 9. Minor officer of the courts
  8. 11. A method of achieving a desired aim
  9. 13. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin