Great Depression

2. Taxes on imported goods
6. a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies during the 1930s
8. President at start of Depression who believed that it was not the governments role to provide direct relief to Americans but rather private individuals and institutions
10. American novelist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath". (1939) A story of Dustbowl victims who travel to California to look for a better life
11. U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet.
14. an agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures
15. shares of ownership in a company

1. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
3. October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
4. New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects
5. 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 World War II
7. The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
9. First lady to FDR, involved in humanitarian and diplomatic efforts around the world. Represented US in UN.
12. (FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health
13. he economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s