U.S History Unit 4: The roaring 20's and the Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. Known as "Alphabet Soup" it was FDR's plan to fix the country in 6 areas.
  2. 5. Works progress Administration - created jobs for the unemployed by funding large public work projects.
  3. 6. Civilian Conservation Corps - gave young men jobs and improved the nations natural resources.
  4. 7. The ban of all alcohol sale. 18th Amendment (1919)
  5. 9. Started bootlegging/speakeasies - earned $60 million a year during prohibition - responsible for 500 murders.
  6. 10. Feeling of White superiority - prejudice against foreigners.
  7. 13. 31st president - believed that government should not help people and businesses should help voluntarily.
  8. 16. The deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world - lasting from 1929-1941.
  9. 19. Agricultural Adjustment Act - Raise crop prices by reducing supply by paying farms to cut production.
  10. 20. Cultural movement in NYC that brought Jazz music, black artist and ideas to mainstream culture for the 1st time.
  11. 21. Mobs of White residents, attacking Black residents and businesses - worst incident of racial violence in American history.
  12. 22. when a government's expenditures exceed its revenues during a fiscal period, causing it to run a budget deficit.
  13. 25. Natural disaster of a drought, high winds and dust that destroyed crops and prevented use of farmland.
  14. 26. Working class has all the power - No rich vs. poor.
  15. 27. Repeals the 18th in 1932 (middle of Great Depression) - Government did this because prohibition wasn't working and they could make money.
  16. 29. High school teacher John.T.Scopes convicted of teaching children evolution.
  17. 31. Allowed average Americans to live beyond their means - buying cars and homes for the 1st time.
  18. 34. FDR vs. Herbert Hoover
  19. 35. Progressive president during the depression and WW2 - served 4 terms and tried to get us out of the Depression with his New Deal.
  20. 36. Women who desired independence because of the 19th amendment - rebeling teenagers against the previous generation through clothes and actions.
  21. 37. Roosevelt's radio chats - informed and relaxed and made American's think he was talking directly to them.
Down
  1. 1. People who would smuggle alcohol from Canada and the Caribbean - "Underground" illegal bars ran by gangs.
  2. 2. People living in Shanties dedicated the towns to President Hoover.
  3. 4. Italian immigrants convicted of robbery and murder, many believed they were innocent. False imprisonment and execution.
  4. 8. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Protect peoples savings and put trust back into banks.
  5. 11. New music, new clothes, new normal, 1920's.
  6. 12. People who would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck
  7. 14. Keep your country or people out of foreign affairs - worry about ourselves.
  8. 15. Social Security Act - Provide financial assistant to the elderly, disable, and unemployed.
  9. 17. Author who wrote about flappers - known for criticizing conformity and was the leader of the Jazz age.
  10. 18. October 29,1929 - 16.4 million stocks were sold in one day and the stock market completely crashed - $30 billion dollars lost.
  11. 23. Securities and Exchange Commission - Regulate the stock market and prevent future crashes.
  12. 24. Created by the leaders of the Social Gospel Movement to feed the homeless and needy - usually their only meal.
  13. 28. 4 million Americans lost their homes and were forced to create their own.
  14. 30. Anti-radical hysteria about the evils of communism and anarchism - U.S feared the spread of communism.
  15. 32. Buying on credit, only buying 10% of the stocks value
  16. 33. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance - promoted equality condemned racism and injustice - His ideas inspired MLK