The Great Depression Vocab and Key People

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Across
  1. 2. borrowing money to buy stocks
  2. 4. Built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power
  3. 6. popular type of jazz in the 1930's
  4. 9. shares of ownership in a company
  5. 10. Created to protect bank savings accounts
  6. 11. Louisiana Senator who opposed FDR's New Deal
  7. 12. A long-lasting economic disaster starting in 1929
  8. 13. worked to improve race relations and education for black Americans
  9. 15. Roosevelt's plans for reform
  10. 18. was a voice for women and minorities
  11. 22. Employed people to build hospitals and airports; also paid writers and artists
  12. 25. Homeless camps during the Great Depression
  13. 26. A period of rising stock prices
  14. 27. President when the Stock Market crashed
  15. 28. Work stoppage when workers refused to leave the factories
Down
  1. 1. Hired men for forestry and conservation projects
  2. 3. The up and down pattern of the economy
  3. 5. informal talks given by FDR over the radio
  4. 7. President from 1933 - 1945 who started the New Deal programs.
  5. 8. President at the beginning of the Great Depression
  6. 14. popular radio show of the 1930's
  7. 16. A steady drop in the stock market
  8. 17. Group of WWI vets that marched to D.C. in 1932 who wanted their bonus
  9. 19. country music artist during the 1930s
  10. 20. Wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"
  11. 21. This act provided financial help to the elderly the the disabled
  12. 23. A drought in the 1930s that created dust storms
  13. 24. October 29 1929 when stock market crashed.