A)frustration E)intensively I)built M)foundB)remedy F)depression J)fatal N)extensivelyC)fought G)struggled K)collapsed O)treatmentD)forced H)descended L)proposalsThe stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the worst economic crisis in American history . During the next several years, the richest nation on earth learned what it meant to be poor . Hard times _ 26 _ their way into every area, group and job . Workers _ 27 _ as factories closed . Farmers hit with falling prices and natural disasters were _ 28 _ to give up their farms . Businessmen lost their stores and sometimes their homes . It was a severe economic crisis——a ( an ) _ 29 _ ——the worst of time . The economic crisis began with the stock market crash in October, 1929 . For the first year, the economy _ 30 _ very slowly . But it dropped sharply in 1931 and 1932 . And by the end of 1932, the economy _ 31 _ almost completely . Falling production . Rising unemployment . Men begging in the streets . But there was more to the _ 32 _ crisis . At that time, the federal government did not guarantee the money that people put in banks. When people could not repay loans, banks began to close . In 1929, 659 banks with total holdings of 200 million dollars went out of business . The next year, twice that number failed _ 33 _ . And the year after that, almost twice that number of banks went out of business . People blamed President Hoover because they thought he was not doing enough to help them . Hoover did take several actions to try to improve the economy . But he resisted _ 34 _ for the federal government to provide _ 35 _ in a major way.