Across
- 1. region of the southern great plains where due to the technology, the soil would become dry and blow away in a strong windstorm
- 4. place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system
- 6. passed by Congress in 1933, goal was to boast the economy helping business regulate
- 7. FDR’s wife, acted as her husband's eyes and ears when he got sick
- 10. skilled workers organized by craft
- 11. sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement
- 13. Workers toiled on projects that helped the public, including planting trees to reforest areas, building levees for flood control and improving national parks was
- 15. aimed to organize entire industries
- 17. President Roosevelt's first few weeks
- 19. raised the prices of goods purchased from other countries, 1930
- 21. explores the Civil War
- 22. helped build dams which controlled floods
- 23. governor of Louisiana, Roosevelt's biggest competitor, assassinated in 1935
- 24. act aimed to raise farm prices quickly
- 25. agreed to pay for public works with federal money, done to make new jobs for unemployed people
Down
- 2. novel written by John Steinbeck, about family journey from Oakland to California during the Great Depression
- 3. political philosophy that stresses the glory of the state over an individual, favours dictatorship
- 5. ordered all banks to close, act passed by Congress, help banks reorganize
- 8. fail to meet an obligation, especially financial
- 9. October 24, 1929, Stockholders had been selling shares by millions. On this day 13 million shares were sold
- 12. shack homes for the homeless during the Great Depression
- 14. payments by government for a limited period of time to people have lost their jobs
- 16. coalition of WW1 veterans who united in 1932 to collect their bonus
- 18. group of advisers hired by Roosevelt, these helped their
- 20. banned child labour and set a minimum wage 40 cents per hour