Unit10Vocab

4. A day on which banks are officially closed to be observed as a public holiday.
5. To make changes in order to improve it.
7. An American author novelist who wrote many books including western literature.
8. A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
10. Purchasing an asset by making a down payment and financing the balance amount through a loan by using the assets as the collateral.
11. An economic measure introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to counteract the effects of the Great Depression.
12. Was the first former first lady who was an American politician, diplomat, and activist.
15. A shareholder who owns shares in a company.
16. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
19. A term given to refer to the events which occurred on a Thursday.

1. The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
2. An informal conversation using a series of radio broadcasts.
3. The 32nd president of the United States also known as FDR.
6. A term to describe a group of people who moved westward to escape the dust bowl.
9. A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by he community as a whole.
13. A federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.
14. An overwhelming majority of votes for one part in an election.
17. A group of experts appointed to advise a government or politician.
18. A incomprehensible or confusing language, typically containing many abbreviations or symbols.
20. An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.