The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. An american physician.
  2. 5. An american author.
  3. 8. Investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.
  4. 11. A shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
  5. 12. A government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957.
  6. 13. A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
  7. 15. The act of borrowing money to buy securities.
  8. 16. Amendment Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol.
Down
  1. 1. An American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
  2. 2. Tariff A law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.
  3. 4. A collective action taken during the auction of a foreclosed property to force the sale of the property at a low price, with the intent of then returning the property to its previous owner.
  4. 6. A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “ Dispute or Conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be”.
  5. 7. A bank or other financial institution.
  6. 9. An American Politician.
  7. 10. A form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th- century Europe.
  8. 14. A group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 U.S World War I veterans.