PRE-AP US History - Unit Four Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. Series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
  2. 7. Tax levied upon goods as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing country.
  3. 10. Agency created in 1933 during the depths of the Great Depression to protect bank depositors and ensure a level of trust in the American banking system.
  4. 12. An excess of revenues over expenditures during a certain period of time.
  5. 13. Removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial.
  6. 16. Created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
  7. 17. An individual who does not have U.S. citizenship and is not a U.S. national.
Down
  1. 1. Manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order.
  2. 2. Period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s).
  3. 3. The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
  4. 4. Movement that began in the late 19th- and early 20th-century within American Protestant circles to defend the "fundamentals of belief" against the corrosive effects of liberalism that had grown within the ranks of Protestantism itself.
  5. 5. Independent federal government regulatory agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets, and facilitating capital formation.
  6. 8. Promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.
  7. 9. One of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
  8. 11. When the government spends more money than it collects.
  9. 14. Drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s.
  10. 15. Record of your ability to repay debts and demonstrated responsibility in repaying them.