Topic 5

2. considered the first day of the stock market crash of 1929
3. persistent and heavy demands by a bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money
7. act of buying stocks at a great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
10. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
11. a person who invests in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of making a profit
12. homeless and usually penniless wanderer
16. radio broadcasts made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Americans
17. a monetary system in which the value of currency is defined in terms of gold
18. minor officers of the courts
19. represents the ownership of a fraction of the issuing corporation

1. when the market has falling prices
4. Roosevelts idea of fixing America during the great depression
5. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
6. veterans looking for their bonuses
7. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
8. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
9. a severe storm caused by overuse of land, drought, and high winds
13. a long period of rising stock prices
14. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
15. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin