Great Depression

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Across
  1. 2. payroll tax funded old age pension
  2. 5. homeless encampments that named after President Hoover
  3. 6. the day of the stock market crash
  4. 7. WWI veterans that wanted their bonus checks early
  5. 10. unemployment rate during the Depression
  6. 13. minimum amount of money a business can pay an employee. Started at $.25
  7. 14. an overwhelming electoral win
  8. 16. government spending more money than it receives in taxes
  9. 17. guaranteed workers right to unionize and collective bargaining
  10. 18. civilian conservation corp, hired young men to construct parks, etc
  11. 19. President of the US at the beginning of the Great Depression
  12. 21. FDR's campaign slogan
Down
  1. 1. Man-made environmental disaster that turned plains farms into a dessert
  2. 3. right of unions to negotiate wages and benefits
  3. 4. President elected in a landslide in 1932
  4. 8. created a bank holiday to prevent more banks from closing
  5. 9. FDR's frequent radio address to Americans to comfort them
  6. 11. FDR's attempt to fill the Supreme Court with judges favorable to him
  7. 12. workers progress administration, hired people to pave roads and build bridges
  8. 15. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, guarantees deposits up to $250,000
  9. 20. one of the causes of the great depression