Across
- 3. government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand
- 4. One of the 3 R´s in the new deal
- 7. the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
- 8. Tennessee Valley Authority, was established in 1933 as one of President Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal programs
- 10. a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States
- 14. October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and the start of the great depression
- 15. effort to help the one-third of the population that was hardest hit by the depression. Relief was also aimed at providing temporary help to suffering and unemployed Americans
- 16. the buyer pays as little as 10% of the purchase price of the stock and borrows the rest from a broker
- 17. Roosevelt only increased the deficit by $3 billion a year to fight the Great Depression
Down
- 1. He asked individuals to tighten their belts and work harder, and he asked the business community to voluntarily help sustain the economy by retaining workers and continuing production.
- 2. suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
- 4. recovery began in early 1933, but the U.S. did not return to 1929 GNP for over a decade and still had an unemployment rate of about 15% in 1940, albeit down from the high of 25% in 1933.
- 5. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the SEC, the legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market
- 6. President Franklin Roosevelt declared a "banking holiday," ordering all banks in the United States closed until government audits declared them solvent. During the Great Depression, banks throughout the United States faced a financial crisis
- 9. a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little FlowerHuey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. To stimulate the economy, the Share Our Wealth program called for massive federal spending, a wealth tax, and wealth redistribution
- 11. a series of the evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944. ... On radio, he was able to quell rumors, counter conservative-dominated newspapers and explain his policies directly to the American people
- 12. to buy stock with the assumption that it can always be sold at a profit
- 13. people started to be able to buy things with payments over time and not have to pay a flat out fee
- 17. went to those in immediate and desperate need; however, work relief.
- 18. Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes