Across
- 2. a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
- 4. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States
- 5. October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression
- 7. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence
- 8. reduction of the general level of prices in an economy
- 10. an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- 12. a nonprofit humanitarian organization whose mission is to improve the lives of people in poverty or emergency situations by providing the appropriate medical resources
- 14. a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona
- 16. a subsidy, a production quota, or a price control
- 18. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings
- 19. the ability to borrow money or access goods or services with the understanding that you'll pay later
- 20. a line of people waiting to receive free food
Down
- 1. a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States
- 3. government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.
- 6. a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
- 9. American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928
- 11. an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States
- 13. a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for free or sometimes at a below-market price
- 15. United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership
- 17. getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash