Across
- 5. someone actively searching for employment but can't find work
- 7. severe storm that damaged agriculture in the Midwest.
- 9. banks suffered huge losses and shutdown when farmers couldn't payback bank loans
- 11. A poor area where small shacks were built from scrap materials
- 12. President blamed for the Great depression
- 13. something, typically money that is owed or due
- 15. the increase of goods and services in an economy
Down
- 1. the day the stock market finally crashed
- 2. 32nd president during the great depression
- 3. farmers were payed to not grow certain crops
- 4. a program created by Roosevelt to create jobs for the unemployed. the program gave needy people government jobs.
- 6. Hoover's belief that recovery would come through private businesses and not direct government aid to the poor
- 8. farm workers who moved to California after the Dust Bowl and moved from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables
- 10. to take property because payments on loans were not made
- 14. an organized system for investors with money to buy and sell shares, or blocks of investments, in corporations.
