U.S. II Chapter 11: The Great Depression

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Across
  1. 3. Tuesday the day the stock market crashed
  2. 7. stock prices first began ____ in the late 1929 because investors began to sell their stock
  3. 9. plan buying now and making payments each month
  4. 10. market system for buying and selling stocks
  5. 11. a major campaign issue in the 1928 election was
  6. 15. most economists agree that a key cause of the Depression was ______.
  7. 18. Alfred E. Smith endured a smear campaign int he 1928 election because he was ______.
  8. 19. call stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan
  9. 20. farmers on the Great Plains began to lost their crops during the depression because _____.
  10. 21. Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, about ordinary people experiencing the Depression
  11. 22. MacArthur led the troops that evicted the Bonus Army
  12. 24. the stock market crash weakened the nations _____ because they invested their deposits in the stock market
  13. 25. during the depression, when a bank collapsed, ________ lost their savings
  14. 26. the ____ tried to rescue troubled banks by allowing them to continue to lend money to their communities
Down
  1. 1. loss of property due to nonpayment of a mortgage
  2. 2. run many depositors withdrawing money at once
  3. 4. Hoover opposed direct federal _____ to the unemployed because he believed that only state and city governments should provide it
  4. 5. investing in the stock market hoping for a quick return
  5. 6. former Secretary of Commerce and Director of the Food Administration who was elected President in 1928
  6. 7. Bowl caused the migration of people from the Great Plains
  7. 8. White the first feature-length animated film
  8. 12. communities of makeshift shanty shacks on used public lands
  9. 13. unemployed young men wandering the country, searching for a better life
  10. 14. works Hoover hoped that _____ ___ would help replace jobs lost in the private sector
  11. 16. made loans to banks, railroads, and other businesses
  12. 17. deficit spending more money than is collected in taxes
  13. 23. the Emergency Relief and Construction Act provided loans to ____ for direct relief
  14. 24. thousands of WWI veterans came to Washington, D.C. in 1932 to lobby Congress to pass legislation giving veterans their promised _____ early