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Down: 1) a popular name given to the collections of temporary shelters for homeless during the Great Depression4) a series of unexpected cash withdrawals caused by a sudden decline in depositor confidence or fear that the bank will be closed6) the region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930's7) free thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920's9) banning the sale, manufacture, and possession of alcoholic beverages11) a government spending of more money that it receives in revenue (taxes)12) a credit system by which payment for merchandise is made in installments over a fixed period of time14) the giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people15) a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children17) President Franklin Roosevelt's program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform Across: 2) borrowing money from the bank to invest in the stock market; the investor buys a stock but not only pays 10% of the cost3) a long period of extremely low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions5) a tax on imports (foreign goods)8) a period when many people feared the influence of communism and anarchism in America and targeted suspects10) when the government does not intervene in the economy; "heads off" economic policies13) when the government takes a very active role to solve the problems of the economy 16) involvement in risk business transactions in an effort to make a quick or a large profit 18) construction projects, such as highways, or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public19) a blossoming of African American artistic creativity during the 1920's, centered in the Harlem community of NY City20) economy-wide fluctuations in production, trade and economic activity in general over several months or years in capitalist economies
 

 

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