The Great Depression (Chapter #11)
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Identify the factors that brought about the Great Depression
Understand how FDR’s leadership helped the U.S. throughout the Great Depression
Understand how the Great Depression affected the economic and social conditions of Americans
Effects of the New Deal
Discuss reasons why some people supported the New Deal while others opposed it
Essential Outcomes:
Evaluate the causes and effects of the Great Depression
 4 Causes and a “spark” lead to the Great Depression
 Long term effects the Great Depression & New Deal had on the U.S.
Analyze the development of the American economic system
 The stock market- boom to bust
 Effects of the stock market crash on the economy
 Long term effects the Great Depression & New Deal had on the U.S. economy
Analyze social unrest in American society
 Extreme poverty
 Bonus Army
Terms & people of the Great Depression:
 Stock exchange
 Black Thursday/Tuesday
 Recession
 Economic depression
 Great Depression
 4 causes for the Great Depression ( unbalanced economy, credit crisis, international
depression, and joblessness and poverty)
 President Hoover’s response to Great Depression
 Hoovervilles
 Rugged individualism
 Bonus Army
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
 New Deal
 Hundred Days
 Bank holiday
 Fireside chats
 Alphabet soup programs
 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
 Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
 Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
 National Recovery Act (NRA)
 Public Works Administration (PWA)
 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Social Security Act (SSA)
Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA)
Frances Perkins
Dust Bowl
Eleanor Roosevelt
Radical groups
Francis Townsend
Father Charles Coughlin
Supreme Court
Senator Huey Long
Second New Deal
Welfare
Court packing
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Textbook chapter #11
Great Depression Power Point
Great Depression notes
Causes for the Great Depression graphic organizer
Stock market game
The New Deal programs graphic organizer
The Dirty Thirties Article & questions
Life During the Depression- Article & questions
Brother can you spare a dime song and discussion questions
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt – article & questions
The Bonus Army- article and questions
Great Depression political cartoons
Cartoon analysis worksheet
The Great Depression video
Extended response comparing Hoover’s & FDR’s response to the Great Depression
Extended response discussing the long term effects of the Great Depression
Study guide
New Deal flash cards
Chapter #11 test
Great Depression DBQ