Chapter 11

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Across
  1. 4. In ____ 1935, Congress passed the Social Security Act
  2. 6. President ____ believed that the economy would improve soon
  3. 10. The Security Act placed a tax on workers and _____
  4. 11. In ____ 1929, Investors started selling their stocks
  5. 14. During the Depression, a disaster hit the ________
  6. 17. The United States slid into an economic crisis called the ____
  7. 18. On October 24, 1929, investors sold almost ____ shares
  8. 19. By ____, 75 percent of Americans lived in poverty
Down
  1. 1. Small banks suffered losses when farmers ____
  2. 2. Migrant workers moved here
  3. 3. Many ____ moved to California and became migrant workers
  4. 5. Stock market crashed on black _____
  5. 7. Hoover believed that the government could not fix the ______
  6. 8. Some people who lost their homes lived in shelters made of old ____
  7. 9. By the late 1920s,____ prices were very high
  8. 12. In ____ Congress created the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  9. 13. Many investors did not have the money to buy stocks so they bought on ___ instead
  10. 15. ____ borrowed their money from banks
  11. 16. Many ___ were forced to look for work
  12. 18. In ____ Roosevelt created a new set of programs, often called the Second New Deal.