Across
- 3. the worst economic downturn
- 5. were a series of evening radio addresses given by franklin d, roosevelt.
- 7. a financial crisis in 1929.
- 10. was to put unemployed americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance.
- 12. the drought that affected south of the us
- 14. the dust bowl
- 16. several hundred men and women smash the windows of a grocery market and make off with loads of food.
Down
- 1. he won reelection in 1944.
- 2. thebreadlines
- 4. was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by president franklin d, roosevelt
- 6. this act provided for unemployment insurance, old age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs.
- 8. hoovervilles
- 9. a line of people waiting to get bread
- 11. literally, a quarter of the country's workforce was jobless
- 13. casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another offering their services on a temporary, usually seasonal basis.
- 15. a shantytown built by unemployed and homeless people
