Across
- 5. Legislation passed to create a partnership between business, labor and government to defeat the depression with measures like price controls, higher wages, and codes of fair competition
- 10. set minimum wage at .40 cents, prohibited child labor, and set the maximum work week at 40 hours
- 11. 2000 WWI vets marching on the capitol
- 12. Depression/ The worst economic downturn in US history
- 13. Declared unconstitutional in Butler v US
- 15. Hoover's phrase for succeeding through your own effort
- 17. Founded to help develop the Tennessee valley region, which had been hit hard by the Depression
- 19. Legislation that created the FDIC and the Bank Holiday
- 20. Created the National Union for Social Justice
- 23. Declared the NRA unconstitutional
- 25. suggested a revolving pension scheme for the elderly
Down
- 1. Plan to increase supreme court justices from 9 to 15
- 2. Ramshackle towns inhabited by a large amount of homeless people
- 3. New Deal legislation to provide jobs to young unmarried men
- 4. Photographer who documented the American struggle during the great depression
- 6. Roosevelt's plan to get the US out of the Depression
- 7. Buying stock to make a quick profit
- 8. When many people try to take all of their money out of the bank at the same time
- 9. When someone pays a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrows the rest
- 14. The day the stock market crashed
- 16. gave money to states to aid dependent children, established unemployment insurance through payroll deduction, and set up old age pensions for retirees
- 18. 1930 tariff that caused the world trade rate to drop 40%
- 21. called for all incomes over 1 million dollars to be seized and redistributed to the poor
- 22. Legislation to give Vets their bonus immediately
- 24. Hoover/ Won the 1928 presidential Election
- 25. Won the 1932 Presidential Election
