1930’s Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The dam that brought much-needed employment to the Southwest during the early 1930’s was the Hoover ____.(p. 386)
  2. 4. Refugees from the Dust Bowl who migrated to other places.(p. 379)
  3. 6. Franklin D. Roosevelt would deliver informal radio speeches to the American people known as _________ chats.(p. 399)
  4. 7. The policy whereby problems could best be solved at the local and state levels.(p. 385)
  5. 10. Inaugurated in March, 1933 as president was Franklin D. __________.(p. 397)
  6. 13. On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed on the day known as _______ Tuesday.(p. 370)
  7. 14. Corporation that gave more than a billion dollars of government loans to railroads and large businesses was the Reconstruction ________ Corporation.(p. 386)
  8. 16. Encouraged Mexican immigrants and their families to move back to Mexico.
  9. 17. Corporation that ensured bank deposits up to $5,000 was the Federal ________ Insurance Corporation.(p. 399)
  10. 18. The period of time between 1929 and 1941 when the economy faltered and economy soared is known as the Great __________.(p. 370)
  11. 19. WW1 veterans seeking the bonus Congress had promised them became known as the ______ Army.(p. 387)
Down
  1. 1. Agency that built a series of dams in the Tennessee River valley to control floods was known as the Tennessee ______ Authority.(p. 400)
  2. 3. Makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land or vacant lots.(p. 376)
  3. 5. The theory that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base was know as ______-Down Economics.(p. 386)
  4. 8. When refugees from the Dust Bowl moved to California, there was a fierce job ___________.(p. 380)
  5. 9. The general in charge of clearing the affected area was General Douglass _________.(p. 388)
  6. 11. Farmers who remained on the land and worked for bigger landowners were known as _______ farmers.(p. 377)
  7. 12. The process that explains the periodic growth and contraction of the economy is known as a Business ________.(p. 370)
  8. 15. The tariff which raised prices on foreign imports was the _______-Smoot Tariff.(p. 371)
  9. 17. Huge winds that would pick up massive amounts of dirt and dust in the middle of the Continental U.S. during the mid 1930’s became known as the ______ Bowl.(p. 378)