The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 2. Government maintaining a certain price of goods by buying the surplus amount
  2. 8. This dropped by 40% during the depression - affected more than just the US
  3. 10. This program helped to supply people in the Tennessee Valley Region modern technology like electricity and indoor plumbing
  4. 12. This new variation of sickness led to death by suffocation
  5. 13. This act gave farmers government subsidies to not plant certain crops or in certain parts of their fields
  6. 14. Lines for food during the Depression were called this
  7. 15. a prolonged downturn in the economy marked by high unemployment and little growth in the economy
  8. 16. The official day that the stock market crashed
  9. 18. The region of the US where the Dust Bowl happened
  10. 19. This jumped from 3% in 1929 to 25% by 1933
Down
  1. 1. Appointed by FDR to run the National Youth Administration
  2. 3. One reason why consumers late in the 20's were buying less goods
  3. 4. Radio program where FDR spoke directly to the American people
  4. 5. FDR forced banks to close temporarily while they were checked for solvency
  5. 6. When a president rejects a bill
  6. 7. This is when workers sit down at their station to keep 'scab' workers from coming in to work
  7. 8. Introduced in 1935 and allowed unions to collectively bargain
  8. 9. What FDR's legislative plan was called that created programs to help Americans during the Depression
  9. 11. raised tarriffs on imported goods - was passed by Pres. Hoover
  10. 17. 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding their bonus pay