Great Depression

1. Plan to establish a federal retirement bank that most American participated
8. President at the beginning of Great Depression
11. when many people go to their bank to withdraw all of their money
12. Provided jobs on conservation projects to young men
13. Established minimum wage and maximum work hours
14. FDR plan to bring the country out of the Depression
16. a tax on imported goods
21. WWI veterans marched on Washington to demand their payments early
22. Encouraged farmers to cut production
23. Photographer that traveled the country documenting the Great Depression and its effects on American people
24. A severe worldwide economic downturn
26. Encouraged cooperation among businesses in establishing production and labor practices
27. Shantytowns named after the President
28. Provided increased government regulation of the stock market

2. focus of the New Deal programs
3. Hoover believed it was vital for the American people to overcome the Depression on their own
4. Provided public works jobs to those needing relief from the Depression
5. the central banking system of US
6. FDR tried to add additional Supreme Court justices in order to protect his New Deal programs
7. First lady that supported civil rights and the poor
9. enacted to create retirement plans
10. idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economy
15. Great plains effected by drought/poor farming
17. Elected Promised to help struggling Americans with direct relief programs
18. Protectionist trade policy passed under Hoover in 1930
19. only paying 10% for stock
20. Brought electricity to the rural Tennessee Valley
25. deposit insurance for money placed in US banks