Across
- 2. A prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness
- 5. line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies
- 8. 32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII
- 10. Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. 31 president
- 12. A general and progressive increase in prices
- 13. A situation in which prices are declining
- 14. A sum paid or charged for the use of money or for borrowing money
- 15. The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
Down
- 1. Group of WW1 vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment
- 3. Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
- 4. economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
- 6. 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.
- 7. valuable product
- 9. A slowdown in a nation's economy
- 11. term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms