Across
- 3. Tuesday, Oct. 29: stock market crashed causing many to want to sell their stocks, few wanted to buy, stock prices collapsed
- 5. purchasing stocks on credit, or with borrowed money
- 9. workers stayed in the factories so they could not be replaced by new workers
- 11. severe and long time period where the economy did not recover from the economic downturn
- 12. hired people to build dams and generators, bringing electricity and jobs to communities in the Tennessee River valley
Down
- 1. WW1 veterans who had come to the capital to demand early payment of military bonus
- 2. a new union in 1935 who organized workers into unions based on industry, not skill level
- 4. passed in 1935, provided some financial security for elderly, the disabled, children, and the unemployed
- 6. radio addresses in which he spoke directly to the American people
- 7. up and down pattern
- 8. new programs created by Roosevelt and Congress to battle the Depression and aid economic recovery
- 10. massive dust storms that swept the region, turning parts of the Great Plains into this