Great Depression & New Deal Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 4. neighborhood where people live in makeshift shacks, often due to poverty
  2. 7. involvement in risky business transactions to make a quick or large profit
  3. 11. 1935 law ensuring old-age insurance, unemployment compensation, and aid for families with dependent children and the disabled
  4. 12. 10/29/1929, when stock prices fell sharply, marking the start of the Great Depression
  5. 14. US president from 1929-1933, struggled to effectively deal with the Great Depression
  6. 15. policy of spending more money than the government receives in revenue, often used in economic crises
  7. 16. FDR’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform
  8. 17. dam on the Colorado River, built during the Great Depression as part of public works to stimulate business and provide jobs
Down
  1. 1. 1930 law establishing the highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression
  2. 2. stock market index based on the prices of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer of market health
  3. 3. first lady and social reformer, known for her deep humanitarian impulses and activism
  4. 5. region affected by severe drought and dust storms during the 1930s, devastating farming
  5. 6. Relief Administration (FERA) New Deal program that gave direct cash payouts to citizens for basic necessities
  6. 8. period from 1929-1940 when the US economy was in severe decline and millions were unemployed
  7. 9. US president from 1933-1945, whose New Deal programs helped pull America out of the Great Depression
  8. 10. group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington, DC in 1932 to demand payment for military service bonuses
  9. 13. weekly radio addresses from FDR outlining New Deal measures to common Americans