Across
- 3. when the stock market crashed
- 4. essentially a $2 billion emergency fund for the US
- 7. free or low cost food offered here
- 10. buy now and pay later
- 13. 1929-1940 in which the economy went way down and unemployment went way up
- 14. highest protective tariff in US history
- 16. type of relief when the government gives you food or money
- 17. democrat candidate in election of 1928
- 18. most widely used barometer of the stock market's health
- 19. group of WW1 veterans that Hoover disbanded as they protested a bill
Down
- 1. buying stocks and bonds hoping for quick profit without thinking about the risks
- 2. government buys the extras for key products at guaranteed prices
- 5. bank act that lowered mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance their homes
- 6. paying a small percentage of stock'e price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
- 8. first president to serve during the Great Depression
- 9. lines of people waiting to get food from charities
- 11. drought caused a massive wave of dust killing crops and forcing families to move
- 12. later called Hoover Dam, provided electricity and flood control
- 15. little towns that were just shacks made of trash and scrap