Across
- 1. Created the 40-hour week, and abolished child labor
- 4. eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government
- 6. suspended antitrust laws, created codes of fair competition, declared unconstitutional in 1935
- 11. Brought electricity to poverty-stricken rural areas
- 13. separated commercial and investment banking
- 14. bought the mortgages of owners that were behind on payments, foreclosed on property if payments not paid
- 15. insured banks, and mortgage companies, thereby encouraging the construction of new homes
Down
- 2. paid farmers to NOT raise prices of crops and large commercial farmers profited
- 3. Was headed by Harry Hopkins, put employees on government payrolls
- 5. created to regulate the stock market and prevent fraud
- 7. banks were issued Treasury Department licenses
- 8. Provides security for the elderly, unemployed workers and needy people
- 9. reduce unemployment by the construction of highways and public buildings
- 10. gave unemployed men ages 18-25 a job working with the national forestry service. Ended in 1942.
- 12. was headed by Harry Hopkins, offered work to artists, musicians, theater people and writers