Chapter 9: The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 2. president who felt the Depression would "work itself out"
  2. 5. nickname of farmers who fled to California in search of fruit picking jobs
  3. 6. name of the Midwest farming region hit hardest by drought
  4. 8. a period of rising prices _______ market
  5. 9. risky business transactions for a quick profit
  6. 10. negative name for shantytowns that sprung up across the country
Down
  1. 1. happens when a home owner can't pay their mortgage and the bank takes back their home
  2. 3. arrangement of buying now and paying later
  3. 4. uneven distribution of this was one of the Great Depression causes
  4. 7. last name of Hoover's opponent in the Election of 1928
  5. 8. military veterans who demanded compensation for their service in World War I