The Great Depression Crossword Puzzle
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- soup kitchen: provide only meals some unemployed americans had
- bank panic: when a bank run begins at one bank and spreads to others causing people to lose confidence in banks
- roosevelt: 32nd president in office during the great depression
- black tuesday: the day the stock market crashed
- okies: many migrant workers came from oklahoma were called
- debt: owing money to a person, bank, etc.
- inflation: a continuous rise in the price of goods and services
- buying on margin: buying stock with little money down and the promise of paying the debt later
- portfolio: a list or collection of financial assets
- bank reserves: the sum of cash that banks hold in their vaults
- stock: a share of ownership in a corporation
- unemployment rate: the percentage of labor force that is willing and able to work doesn't not have a job
- shanty town: a very poor area where small shakes were built
- depression: the us fell into _ when the idea of loans took a wrong turn
- stock market: a system to buy and sell stocks
- credit: everyone used _ and no one had enough money to pay it back
- price stability: the absence of inflation and the absence of deflation
- inflation: a general sustained upward movement of prices for goods and services on the economy
- great depression: the economic crisis that happened in the u.s. and many other nations beginning with the stock market
- bank failure: when a banks liabilities exceed the value of its assets
- dust bowl: name given to the drought stricken southern plains regions of the u.s.
- public works: federal spending to fund projects such as highways and parks
- new deal:a series of reforms enacted by president f.d.r. between 1933 - 1942
- herbert hoover: president elected in 1928 who took allot of the blame for the depression