The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 2. one of the most revolutionary of the new deal public works projects, brought cheap electric power, full employment, low cost housing, and environmental improvements to Americans in the Tennessee Valley
  2. 3. a flagship accomplishment of the New Deal, provided unemployment and old-age insurance financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees
  3. 5. economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending
  4. 7. highest ranking African American in the Roosevelt administration
  5. 8. specialists in law, economics, and welfare, many of them young university professors, who advised FDR and helped develop the New Deal policies
  6. 9. economic political policies of FDR's administration in the 1930's, which aimed to solve the problems of the Great Depression
Down
  1. 1. government program created by Congress to hire young, unemployed men to improve the rural, out of doors, environment with such work as planting trees
  2. 4. important New Deal labor legislation that regulated minimum wages and maximum hours for workers involved in interstate commerce
  3. 6. politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court
  4. 10. grim nickname for the Great Plains region devastated by drought and dust storms during the 1930's