CJR: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 helps bring about The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 5. The U.S. had loaned billions of dollars to its ___ recovering from World War I.
  2. 8. Smoot-Hawley ___ Act
  3. 10. The entire ___ economy was struggling at the time of the Great Depression.
  4. 13. This helped convince people that everyone could afford products by borrowing money.
  5. 16. Farmers were growing more crops than ever before. This caused ___ to drop so low that they couldn't make any profit.
  6. 17. The month the Stock Market Crashed
  7. 18. Many farmers lost their ___ during The Great Depression.
  8. 19. In October 1929 people ___ and began selling selling stocks like crazy.
  9. 21. When stocks become worth a lot more than their actual value, this is known as "over ___"
  10. 23. Many people lost their life ___.
Down
  1. 1. People were buying stocks on ___.
  2. 2. In the first few years of the Great Depression, over 10,000 ___ failed.
  3. 3. ___ had been having a tough time for much of the 1920s.
  4. 4. Prior to the Great Depression, many American banks were ___.
  5. 6. People were buying ___ on credit.
  6. 7. When The Great Depression started, many companies had to lay off ___.
  7. 9. Much of the U.S. wealth was concentrated in the hands of a ___ people.
  8. 11. Many people went into ___ buying products they couldn't afford.
  9. 12. During the Great Depression many people migrated to ___ hoping to find work.
  10. 14. Smoot-Hawley placed high tariffs on ___.
  11. 15. 1n the 1920s, people began to buy goods using a type of credit called an "___ plan."
  12. 20. With no rainfall. farmers' fields turned to ___.
  13. 22. Stock Market ___ of 1929