HEELPPP: Read this sentence from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Inaugural Address of March 4, 1933. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

Select from the drop-down menu to correctly identify the meaning of the phrase "the withered leaves."

Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; of industrial enterprise lie on every side;

-The economic losses
-the abandoned buildings
-the decaying trees.
-the unemployed workers