Across
- 2. Failure: When banks close because they run out of money, causing people to lose their savings.
- 6. When factories produce more goods than people can afford to buy.
- 8. Depression: A severe economic crisis that began in 1929 when many Americans lost their jobs, money, and homes.
- 10. Shantytowns where homeless people lived after losing their homes during the Great Depression.
Down
- 1. The condition in which people who want to work cannot find jobs.
- 3. A decrease in prices that happens when people stop spending money, hurting businesses and workers.
- 4. Bowl: A period of severe dust storms caused by drought that destroyed farms, mainly in the Great Plains.
- 5. Market Crash (1929): When stock prices suddenly fell, causing many people to lose their savings and starting the Great Depression.
- 7. Deal: A series of programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the economy recover and provide jobs.
- 9. Long lines of people waiting to receive free food during the Great Depression.