The Great Depression

5. leading measure of stock market trends
6. total goods and services produced by the nation plus income from citizens
8. act that raised customs duties and made it more difficult for European business to sell goods in the U.S.
9. purchasing stocks using credit
11. 1924 president
12. 1928 president
13. most prolonged and greatest economic downturn in American history
16. program that deported around 1 million people of Mexican descent
18. unequal distribution of wealth between wealthiest and rest of population
19. another name for October 29, 1929

1. rates of this were skyrocketing during the great depression, caused homelessness and poverty
2. a group of businesses that manufacture a product, a sector of an economy
3. a war that was a big cause for large worldwide financial weakness
4. another name for October 24, 1929
7. groups formed to buy and sell a lot of stocks
9. loan used to buy real estate
10. when a lender (bank) sells the property of the borrower to repay debt
14. the act of returning someone to their country of citizenship
15. the industry that drove most of the economy in the 1920s
17. central bank of the U.S., regulated banking during the Depression