Across
- 5. a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for free or sometimes at a below-market price.
- 6. was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States
- 10. was a period of severe dust storms
- 12. is a humanitarian aid organization
- 13. was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928.
- 15. was a group of 43,000 demonstrators
- 16. created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors.
- 18. is a combination of two programs: a price floor and government purchase of surplus.
- 19. involves getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.
- 20. the ability to borrow money or access goods or services with the understanding that you'll pay later.
Down
- 1. was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government.
- 2. Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
- 3. a line of people waiting to receive free food.
- 4. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
- 7. is a piece of legislation passed in 1932.
- 8. is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services.
- 9. is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.
- 11. the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
- 14. a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings.
- 17. was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.