The Great Depression Vocabualry

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Across
  1. 3. Underlying foundation on which a community on nation depends
  2. 7. October 29, 1929. The day the Stock Market Crashed
  3. 8. Financial failure caused by a company not being able to pay its debts
  4. 9. FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression
  5. 11. A person who travles from place to place working on farms
  6. 14. 20,000 World War 1 veterans who were promised $1,000 to be paid by 1945
  7. 16. A law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax
  8. 17. The idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
  9. 18. President of the United States during the Great Depression and most of World War II. He created the New Deal, which brought America out of the Depression.
  10. 19. 12 year economic and social disaster
  11. 21. FDR’s second set of programs and reforms to end the Great Depression
  12. 22. Makeshift towns of homeless people displaced by the Great Depression
  13. 23. A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold
Down
  1. 1. Weekly radio broadcast by FDR that reassured the country during the Great Depression
  2. 2. Grant money from the government to a person or company for an action intended to help the public
  3. 4. Payments made by the government for a limited amount of time to a person who has lost their job
  4. 5. The first 100 days of FDR’s presidency
  5. 6. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries
  6. 10. causing massive crop failures and devastating dust storms
  7. 12. Programs that gave needy people government jobs
  8. 13. Aid for the needy, welfare
  9. 15. When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes
  10. 20. Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire