Across
- 2. Created the United States Housing Authority
- 4. Gave money to state and local agencies to fund their relief projects
- 11. Bill to increase the number of justices and allow the president to appoint an additional justice of a sitting justice who had served 10 years did not retire within 6 months of reaching age 70
- 12. Separated commercial banking from investment banking
- 13. Financed artists, musicians, theater people, and writers
- 14. Guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively and established the National Labor Relations Board
- 15. Gave loans to tenant farmers so they could purchase farms
- 16. Provided some financial security for older Americans, unemployed workers, and others
Down
- 1. Set out to organize unions that included all workers, skilled or unskilled, in a particular industry
- 3. Helped farmers refinance their mortgages
- 5. Bought the mortgages of home owners who were behind in their payments; then restructured the loans with longer repayment terms and lower interest rates
- 6. Authorized the National Recovery Administration to suspend antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate with rules, or codes of fair competition
- 7. Abolished child labor, limited the workweek to 44 hours for most workers, and set the first federal minimum wage at 25 cents an hour
- 8. Put construction workers back to work
- 9. Offered unemployed young men 18-25 the opportunity to work under the direction of the forestry service
- 10. Required federal examiners to survey the nation’s banks and issue Treasury Department licenses to those that were financially sound