Across
- 2. severe drought and dust storm.
- 5. borrowing money to help pay for stocks.
- 6. old-age insurance program.
- 9. Works Progress Administration.
- 12. making high-risk investments.
- 13. massive withdrawals of cash by depositors, terrified that their banks would fail.
- 15. the president when the depression began.
Down
- 1. shantytowns for the homeless.
- 3. raising U.S. import duties to record levels.
- 4. Tuesday nickname for the day the stock market crashed.
- 7. army veterans protesting for pay.
- 8. when stock prices are expected to rise.
- 10. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (bank insurance).
- 11. economist advocating government spending.
- 14. the Democratic candidate who beat Hoover by a landslide in the 1932 presidential election.