Across
- 1. federal _____ insurance cooperation
- 4. Great Plains experienced a drought
- 6. believed that the economy would improve soon
- 10. 13 million shares
- 12. moved to California because of the dust bowl
- 14. organized system for buying and selling shares
- 15. borrowed their money from banks
- 16. suffered losses when farmers defaulted
- 19. slid into an economic crisis called the Great Depression
Down
- 2. the investors and brokers would not make enough money to pay off the loans
- 3. dust bowl
- 5. 75 percent of Americans lived in poverty
- 7. did not have the money to buy stocks, so they bought on margin
- 8. homeless shelter during the depression
- 9. that day became known as that
- 11. pay monthly pensions to retired people
- 13. were forced to look for work
- 17. Emergency Banking Relief Act
- 18. were hungry during the great depression
- 20. Congress created the Works Progress Administration