The Great Depression

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  1. 3. WWI veterans who marched to Washington, D.C. demanding their $1,000 promised to them.
  2. 5. Popular during the Great Depression, these places provided free food to the poor and unemployed.
  3. 6. President during the Great Depression when the stock market crashed who is commonly blamed for his failed efforts of saving the economy.
  4. 9. Percentage of American households who owned stock before the stock market crash.
  5. 10. The nickname given to the day the stock market crashed.
  6. 12. Places where the poor and hungry could get food because of many business failures.
  7. 13. Established the New Deal to help restore the economy during the Great Depression.
  8. 15. People who moved to the West from the Great Plains in search of jobs because of the consequences of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
Down
  1. 1. Caused by drought and over-farming of the land, dust storms that occurred in the Great Plains.
  2. 2. Increased the tax on imported goods by nearly 50%.
  3. 4. Shantytowns built by the homeless during the Great Depression.
  4. 7. A series of programs established during the Great Depression to provide relief and reform the economy.
  5. 8. Crashed due to too many people investing in it.
  6. 11. Purchasing a stock by paying only a small percentage of the price.
  7. 14. Became popular during the Great Depression to help people escape their struggles.