Across
- 2. 20,000 WW1 veterans were promised $1,000 each.
- 4. Financial failure caused by a company not being able to pay its debts.
- 5. First 100 days of FDR's presidency.
- 7. Programs that gave needy people government jobs.
- 8. FDR's second set of programs and reforms to end the Great Depression.
- 9. Makeshift towns for homeless people during the Great Depression.
- 10. The idea that the government should play a small role in economic affairs.
- 11. A law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax.
- 12. FDR's plan to end the Great Depression.
- 14. Stuff that people depend on daily like roads or schools.
- 15. 12 year economic and social disaster that begins in the US.
- 18. President of the US for most of the Great Depression and WW2.
- 19. The day the stock market crashed.
- 22. A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system.
- 23. A massive drought in the Midwest that cause massive crop failure and dust storms.
Down
- 1. Weekly radio broadcast by FDR that reassured the country during the Great Depression.
- 3. A person who travels from place to place working on farms.
- 6. Payments made by the government for a limited time for those who lost their jobs.
- 13. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use.
- 16. Aid for the needy.
- 17. When the government goes in debt from spending more money than they collect from taxes.
- 20. Grant money from the government to a person or company for an action intended to help the public.
- 21. Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire.
