Across
- 5. October 29,1929, 16.4 million stocks were sold and the stock market collapsed, approx. $30 billion dollars were lost.
- 6. Thought the government should help the people, served 4 terms, and helped us out of the great depression with his “New Deal”
- 7. People who smuggle alcohol into the US for consumption/secret underground bars
- 8. 4 million people lost their homes, and had to build their own in these makeshift neighborhoods dedicated to president Hoover
- 12. A natural disaster of droughts, high winds, and dust.
- 13. The Securities and Exchange Commission is intended to help people be informed with reliable information about the current investment market
- 14. The Works Progress Administration was meant to help people get jobs
- 16. An agreement between a borrower and lender in which the borrower is allowed to get goods/money now and pay it back later
- 18. The descriptive word for the new style of women who dressed and acted differently.
- 20. Hoover VS FDR
- 21. The new cultural movement that brought black cultures to mainstream audiences
- 22. spending outside of your means. Deficit spending often leads to debt
- 25. The idea that your country should stay out of international affairs
- 26. The Social Security Act was to help provide to the elderly and disabled
- 27. Buying and selling stocks fast to make a quick buck
- 30. The Alphabet Soup. A plan to help get america back onto its feet, and recover from the great depression
- 33. Two italian immigrants convicted of robbery and murder, later found to be innocent.
- 34. Buying stock on credit, you only get 10% of the stock’s worth.
- 35. Created by leaders of the social gospel to feed homeless/hungry daily.
Down
- 1. The author of The Great Gatsby, and a very influential man at the time. Known for criticizing conformity and leader of the jazz community
- 2. An attempt at creating a “perfect society,” the opposite of a democracy
- 3. The banning of the sale and production of alcohol
- 4. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance, he promoted equality and condemned racism. He inspired MLK and the Civil Rights Movement
- 9. One of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history, blacks were killed, and their homes and business were looted
- 10. The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to help preserve our natural resources
- 11. Our 31st president, he was a very impartial president, who got us into the great depression. Had the idea that businesses should voluntarily help the people, not the government.
- 15. The amendment that officially made prohibition legal
- 17. The deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized hemisphere, it lasted from 1921-1941
- 19. FDR would constantly broadcast radio shows to tell the american people what he was going to do to help them
- 23. the idea that your country is the best, and is willing to kill for it. Patriotism to the next level.
- 24. The cultural movement in NYC that brought black culture, and jazz music to mainstream culture for the first time
- 28. The fear that communism was going to come to the united states, and it led to violence
- 29. The purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act was to help control the agricultural market and restore purchasing powers to farmers.
- 31. One of the most famous mob bosses, got his riches from his bootleggers
- 32. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is intended to insure money that people put into the banks