Across
- 3. Money or food given directly from the government to the needy
- 4. October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed
- 9. A neighborhood where people live in shacks, often referred to as “Hoovervilles”
- 10. Period of bad economic times in the United States that lasted from 1929 through the 1930s
- 11. 31st president
- 12. A decrease in the general price level of goods and services
Down
- 1. Short-term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later
- 2. Area of the Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s
- 5. Place where free food is served to the needy
- 6. A line of people waiting for free food
- 7. Unemployed World War I veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses
- 8. Dam on the Colorado River built during the Depression to create jobs (now called the Hoover Dam)