Great Depression

2. an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded
4. Former Governor of New York
5. designed to encourage homeownership by providing a source of low-cost fund
9. Getting a loan from your brokerage to invest in more securities
11. is the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
13. a long and severe recession in an economy or market.
15. an agency authorized by the U.S. government to loan money to assist the nation's ailing banks after the stock market crash of 1929
16. the ability to borrow money
19. 31st U.S. president
20. a dam on the Colorado River

1. a price-weighted index that tracks 30 large
3. a place where free food is served to those who are homeless.
6. A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression
7. prices that the government sets and maintains by buying surplus goods.
8. enacted to protect U.s. farmers from foreign competition.
10. is the action of deflating
12. a line of people waiting to receive free food.
14. a humanitarian aid organization
17. New york stock exchange completely collapsed
18. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings.