Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ________________
WebQuest The Great Depression – 1930's America
**To access the following links in order to answer the questions, find the
“Great Depression Webquest links” in Google Classroom.**
Go to: ​Teacher Resources - Feature - American Memory Timeline: Great
Depression - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
1. What event started the Great Depression?
2. How many Americans were unemployed during the worst part of the
Depression?
3. Explain one effect of the Depression in other parts of the world.
4. What finally brought an end to the Depression in the U.S.?
Go to: ​Dust Bowl
5. Explain what the Dust Bowl was ​and​ its two main causes.
6. What was President Hoover’s position on helping farmers in the midWest?
7. Name two things farmers did to either save money or try to make money
since they could not farm.
Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ________________
Go to: ​stock market crash
8. Explain what happened with the stock market and banks to cause the Great
Depression:
Go to: ​Banking Crisis
9. What happened during bank runs?
10. What was the largest single bank failure in American history? ​Why?
11. When ​and​ where was the first bank run panic?
Go to: ​Prices in the 1930's
12 . What was the price of a house in the 1930s?:
13. What was the price of a gallon of gas in the 1930s?
14. What was the price of an Emerson radio?
15. What was the price of a Roadking car?
Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ________________
Go to: ​Hoovervilles in the US
16. What were Hoovervilles ​and​ why were they called that?
Go to: ​Free time during the depression
17. List five things people did during their free time during the Depression?
Do a Google image search for “Great Depression”
18. What is the feeling you get of life in 1930's America?:
This photo was taken by Dorothea Lange
19. Why do you think this photo is the ​MOST
famous photo of the Depression?:
Go to: ​Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's
20. Name the title of a famous song.