Across
- 3. Known as "Alphabet Soup" it was FDR's plan to fix the country in 6 areas.
- 5. Works progress Administration - created jobs for the unemployed by funding large public work projects.
- 6. Civilian Conservation Corps - gave young men jobs and improved the nations natural resources.
- 7. The ban of all alcohol sale. 18th Amendment (1919)
- 9. Started bootlegging/speakeasies - earned $60 million a year during prohibition - responsible for 500 murders.
- 10. Feeling of White superiority - prejudice against foreigners.
- 13. 31st president - believed that government should not help people and businesses should help voluntarily.
- 16. The deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world - lasting from 1929-1941.
- 19. Agricultural Adjustment Act - Raise crop prices by reducing supply by paying farms to cut production.
- 20. Cultural movement in NYC that brought Jazz music, black artist and ideas to mainstream culture for the 1st time.
- 21. Mobs of White residents, attacking Black residents and businesses - worst incident of racial violence in American history.
- 22. when a government's expenditures exceed its revenues during a fiscal period, causing it to run a budget deficit.
- 25. Natural disaster of a drought, high winds and dust that destroyed crops and prevented use of farmland.
- 26. Working class has all the power - No rich vs. poor.
- 27. Repeals the 18th in 1932 (middle of Great Depression) - Government did this because prohibition wasn't working and they could make money.
- 29. High school teacher John.T.Scopes convicted of teaching children evolution.
- 31. Allowed average Americans to live beyond their means - buying cars and homes for the 1st time.
- 34. FDR vs. Herbert Hoover
- 35. Progressive president during the depression and WW2 - served 4 terms and tried to get us out of the Depression with his New Deal.
- 36. Women who desired independence because of the 19th amendment - rebeling teenagers against the previous generation through clothes and actions.
- 37. Roosevelt's radio chats - informed and relaxed and made American's think he was talking directly to them.
Down
- 1. People who would smuggle alcohol from Canada and the Caribbean - "Underground" illegal bars ran by gangs.
- 2. People living in Shanties dedicated the towns to President Hoover.
- 4. Italian immigrants convicted of robbery and murder, many believed they were innocent. False imprisonment and execution.
- 8. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Protect peoples savings and put trust back into banks.
- 11. New music, new clothes, new normal, 1920's.
- 12. People who would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck
- 14. Keep your country or people out of foreign affairs - worry about ourselves.
- 15. Social Security Act - Provide financial assistant to the elderly, disable, and unemployed.
- 17. Author who wrote about flappers - known for criticizing conformity and was the leader of the Jazz age.
- 18. October 29,1929 - 16.4 million stocks were sold in one day and the stock market completely crashed - $30 billion dollars lost.
- 23. Securities and Exchange Commission - Regulate the stock market and prevent future crashes.
- 24. Created by the leaders of the Social Gospel Movement to feed the homeless and needy - usually their only meal.
- 28. 4 million Americans lost their homes and were forced to create their own.
- 30. Anti-radical hysteria about the evils of communism and anarchism - U.S feared the spread of communism.
- 32. Buying on credit, only buying 10% of the stocks value
- 33. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance - promoted equality condemned racism and injustice - His ideas inspired MLK