Great Depression and New Deal Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. paper money backed not by gold or silver but by government guarantee of value
  2. 6. series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression
  3. 8. public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried, men from relief families as part of the New Deal
  4. 10. old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped
  5. 12. American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
  6. 13. Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States
  7. 15. assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates
  8. 16. provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley
  9. 19. Backing dollars solely with gold
  10. 20. United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks
Down
  1. 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice
  2. 2. a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
  3. 3. law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities
  4. 4. term used to describe a series of 28 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  5. 7. was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry
  6. 9. purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker
  7. 11. increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court
  8. 14. bill passed during the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in reaction to the financially adverse conditions of the Great Depression
  9. 17. shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America
  10. 18. largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads