Of Mice and Men Background Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. One of California's most well-known authors; wrote The Pearl and Of Mice and Men.
  2. 4. A series of economic policies and programs instituted by President Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
  3. 6. The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from the stock market crash of 1929 to 1939.
  4. 9. What happens to "the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men".
  5. 11. The first of two stock market crashes that kicked off the Great Depression.
  6. 14. This slur referred to migrants from the Dust Bowl in search of work.
  7. 16. An area of severe drought that inspired mass migration in the 1930s.
Down
  1. 1. This famous Depression-era photograph shows a worried woman with two small children.
  2. 3. A period of economic prosperity when the US economy doubled in size.
  3. 5. The idea that everyone in the US has an equal chance at success and prosperity.
  4. 7. These provided food for millions of unemployed Americans.
  5. 8. Vista campus was funded as part of this New Deal Program.
  6. 10. President elected in 1933 who enacted the New Deal.
  7. 12. President at the beginning of the Great Depression.
  8. 13. President Roosevelt's legislation gave workers the right to join these in 1935.
  9. 15. An agricultural town near Monterey Bay where Of Mice and Men is set.