The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 4. Insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000
  2. 5. the total value of all goods and services produced by a country in a given year
  3. 9. Employed young men on public-works projects
  4. 12. Action the GM workers started due to their frustration of factory conditions
  5. 14. Downward trend in stock prices
  6. 16. Someone who worked for direct relief to aid America’s unemployed
  7. 22. Provided job training and work for people ages 16-25; provided part-time jobs for needy students
  8. 25. Theory in which industries increase workers and production during prosperous time but when cut back and lay off workers cause depression
  9. 26. Regulated the securities market
  10. 28. Formed to aid a rural seven-state region that was scarred by deforestation and frequent flooding
  11. 29. The high tariff that contributed to the economic downturn of the 1930s
  12. 30. it was designed to stop massive withdrawals
Down
  1. 1. Upward trend in stock prices
  2. 2. Belief that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
  3. 3. Was one of FDR’s most important political assets
  4. 6. gave money to stabilize troubled banks, insurance companies, railroad companies, and other institutions
  5. 7. a policy used when customers did not have enough money at the time
  6. 8. Recognized rights of labor, to organize and bargain collectively; regulated labor practices
  7. 10. Employed people to do art, public-works, and research projects
  8. 11. Someone who was against directly aiding Americans in need
  9. 13. Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930s after a severe drought struck the region
  10. 15. The purchase of stock using borrowed money,something that needs the bull market to continue
  11. 17. Midwestern artists popular in the 1930s who stressed local folk themes and customs in their work
  12. 18. Novelist who wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) to portray Mississippi during the Great Depression
  13. 19. Provided unemployment benefits, pensions for the elderly, and survivor’s insurance
  14. 20. The day the stock market crashed (October 29, 1929)
  15. 21. Lines formed by people waiting for free food
  16. 23. Collections of makeshift shelters built by homeless people
  17. 24. Successful program presented in the 1930s to fight the Great Depression
  18. 25. The day investors caused a panic on Wall Street by selling their stock (October 24, 1929)
  19. 27. Mutual-aid societies formed by Mexican American communities to help local residents
  20. 30. Group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand immediate payment of their pension bonuses