Boom and Bust Intro Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. customers desire or willingness to buy a specific product
  2. 4. towers that support oil drilling equipment
  3. 6. people supporting the war that are not part of the military
  4. 8. the total amount of a good that is available for people to buy
  5. 9. dark, think liquid used as fuel; also called petroleum
  6. 11. last names of the two guys that struck oil at Spindletop
  7. 12. France, Britain, Russia, and later the United States alliance name during WW1
  8. 14. 1900 hurricane that destroyed the booming business and life on Galveston Island
  9. 15. year World War 2 began
  10. 16. World War that introduced trench warfare
  11. 17. year that oil was found in Texas at Spindletop
  12. 18. Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy alliance name during WW1
Down
  1. 1. alternate periods of high and low levels of economic activity in the business cycle
  2. 2. name of illness going around as an epidemic following World War 1
  3. 5. World War that Hitler led Germany through
  4. 7. nickname for the 1920s; society and the economy booming following WW1
  5. 10. World War 1 is considered the _______ conflict in World History
  6. 13. a person who works on an oil rig
  7. 15. gave women the right to vote; women's suffrage