US Unit 5 Vocab (Part 1)

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Across
  1. 2. Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed on October 29, 1929
  2. 4. Name given to the area of the southern Great Plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930s
  3. 6. A homeless and usually penniless wanderer
  4. 9. To take possession of a property from a mortgagor because of defaults on payments
  5. 10. (RFC) Organization set up to make loans to banks, railroads, and agricultural institutions
  6. 11. Began as a protective measure to assist farmers, but turned out to be the highest protective tariff in the nation’s peacetime history. It raised the duty on goods from 38.5% to 60% in 1930
  7. 13. A successful engineer and former head of the Food Administration during World War I, who ran as the Republican nominee for President in 1928
  8. 14. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
  9. 16. Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
  10. 18. Nickname given to shantytowns in the United States during the Depression
  11. 20. Investing money at great risk with the anticipation that the price will rise
Down
  1. 1. Army chief of staff who ignored Hoover’s orders to clear the buildings of veterans but to leave the camps alone
  2. 3. A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
  3. 5. A poor section of town consisting of crudely built dwellings usually made of wood
  4. 7. Wrote The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, which tells the story of an Oklahoma family fleeing the Dust Bowl to find a new life in California
  5. 8. Wrote The Sound and the Fury, where he shows what his characters are thinking and feeling before they speak
  6. 12. Four-time governor of New York, who was the first Roman Catholic ever nominated to run for president
  7. 15. Produced the first feature-length animated film in 1937
  8. 17. Unemployed World War I veterans who came to Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand the immediate payment of the bonus Congress had voted for them in 1922
  9. 19. Buying an item on credit with a monthly plan to pay off the value of the good