Across
- 2. to supply electricity to rural communities
- 8. It employed more than eight million people to build roads and highways, bridges, schools, airports, parks, and other public projects
- 10. to improve the lot of the poor farmers so poignantly depicted in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath
- 14. stimulating the growth of the building industry
Down
- 1. provided construction jobs for more than four million people who were paid $15 per week to work on schools, roads, and sewers
- 3. provided assistance for the unemployed, supporting nearly five million households each month by funding work projects for more than 20 million people
- 4. revitalized the region by building 16 dams to control flooding, generate hydraulic power, and increase agricultural production
- 5. to merge the administrative responsibilities for regulating broadcasting and wire communications into one centralized agency
- 6. protect the rights of organized labor by legalizing practices such as "closed shops" in which only union members could work and collectively bargain
- 7. setting forth stringent regulations for banks and providing depositors with insurance of up to $5,000 through the newly formed FDIC
- 9. to restore the stability of the stock market after the crash of October 1929 and to prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities
- 11. to administer a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and a public assistance program for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled
- 12. hiring more than 2.5 million young men to work on environmental projects
- 13. established the minimum wage