The Great Depression Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• 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