The New Deal

1. Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
6. A series of evening radio addresses given by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
7. A resident, native or cultural descendant of Oklahoma.
8. A group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 US World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington DC in mid 1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
10. Term for the federal government after the New Deal that describes how the federal government mediates between various interest groups competing for advantages in the national economy.
11. Term for a group of African American who served as public policy advisors.
12. Old newspaper used as blanketing.
13. A system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
15. Was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States.

2. A day on which banks are officially closed, observed as a public holiday.
3. United States federal government project created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers during the Great Depression.
4. A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
5. The alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the US that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s.
9. Passed by Congress in 1933 and prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business.
14. A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936.