Topic 6: Great Depression and New Deal

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Across
  1. 2. Dust Bowl refugees who left Oklahoma and headed to California in search of agricultura.
  2. 5. government agency created during the New Deal that insures bank deposits, guaranteeing that depositors' money will be safe.
  3. 7. New Deal program that provided young men with relief jobs on environmental conservation projects, including reforestation and flood control.
  4. 8. FDR's wife and quintessential First Lady who became a public figure in her own right, traveling the country promoting the causes of helping women, children, and the poor.
  5. 12. New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings as well as airports, dams, and bridges.
  6. 13. economic theory that holds that financial benefits given to banks and large businesses will trickle down to smaller businesses and consumers.
  7. 14. government agency created during the New Deal to build dams in the Tennessee River valley to control flooding and generate electric power
  8. 16. 1935 New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor unions, and gave workers the right to collective bargaining.
  9. 17. New Deal agency that promoted economic recovery by regulating production, prices, and wages.
Down
  1. 1. 1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, created insurance for victims of work-related
  2. 3. U.S. Army General who exceeded Hoover's orders to "surround the affected area and clear it without delay." (suppressed the Bonus Army protesters
  3. 4. elected President in 1932, he lead the nation through the Great Depression and World War II.
  4. 6. informal radio broadcasts in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained his view of issues at hand.
  5. 9. programs and legislation pushed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform.
  6. 10. The key New Deal agency created in 1935 that provided work relief through various public works projects.
  7. 11. a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
  8. 15. policy relied on by President Hoover in the early years of the Great Depression, whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief.