Across
- 2. buying and selling stocks rapidly in order to make a quick profit
- 4. highest tariff in US history
- 6. President Roosevelt's plan to relieve Americans through government spending
- 8. purchasing stock with only a down payment and borrowing the rest
- 10. a share of ownership in a company
- 11. a huge public works project pushed by President Hoover to create thousands of construction jobs
- 12. the unpopular President at the outbreak of the Depression
- 13. makeshift towns made of scraps that housed displaced Americans
Down
- 1. banks seizing mortgaged properties
- 3. a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s which destroyed agriculture
- 5. a group of WWI veterans that protested in Washington to demand payout of money promised
- 7. President Roosevelt's informative broadcasts over the radio
- 8. charitable organizations that provided free meals to the needy
- 9. a massive stock market crash that set off the Great Depression