Module 9 Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. the ability to borrow money or access goods or services with the understanding that you'll pay later.
  2. 6. By controlling unpredictable floods, providing water to drought-ridden areas, and generating electrical power, the dam transformed the West and encouraged settlement of the region.
  3. 8. were representative of the increasing unemployment and consequent hunger caused by the Depression.
  4. 9. the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
  5. 12. the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s.
  6. 14. groups together the prices of 30 of the most traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange
  7. 16. set up a way to encourage homeownership by providing banks with low-cost funds to be used for mortgages.
  8. 17. share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
  9. 19. was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
Down
  1. 1. reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
  2. 3. government maintenance of specified price levels at a minimum above market equilibrium by subsidy or by purchase of the market surplus at the guaranteed levels.
  3. 4. provided the only meals some unemployed Americans had.
  4. 5. investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.
  5. 6. 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.
  6. 7. 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 and during the Great Depression that followed.
  7. 10. began sending relief parcels to people who were rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of World War II.
  8. 11. demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
  9. 13. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings.
  10. 15. enacted to protect U.S. farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign goods.
  11. 18. an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York