UNIT 5 — Great Depression & New Deal

2. Severe drought and poor farming practices that devastated the Great Plains
5. Government spending more money than it collects in taxes
9. Law providing pensions for elderly and benefits for unemployed and disabled
11. Agency regulating the stock market and preventing fraud
13. WWI veterans who marched on Washington seeking early bonus payment
14. Louisiana senator who criticized the New Deal and proposed Share Our Wealth
15. Tennessee program building dams and bringing electricity to rural areas
17. Programs designed to restore the economy during the New Deal
20. Roosevelts programs to provide relief recovery and reform
22. President who created the New Deal programs
23. Program that insures bank deposits to protect savings
24. Roosevelts failed plan to add justices to the Supreme Court
25. Radio broadcasts where Roosevelt explained policies directly to Americans

1. Purchasing stocks using borrowed money
3. When banks collapse because too many people withdraw money at once
4. New Deal agency creating jobs building roads schools and public buildings
6. Day the stock market crashed in October 1929
7. Producing more goods than consumers can afford to buy
8. Shantytowns of makeshift shacks named to blame President Hoover
10. Severe worldwide economic downturn beginning in 1929
12. Hoovers belief that people should solve their own problems without government aid
16. Immediate aid to the needy under the New Deal
18. Long term changes made to prevent another Great Depression
19. New Deal agency attempting to set fair wages and prices for businesses
21. Program hiring young men for conservation and outdoor projects