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Great Depression Webquest
Great Depression Unit Objectives
1. Identify & explain the causes and effects the stock market crash and the Great Depression had on the people & the economy.
2. Summarize the initial actions taken by Hoover and Roosevelt to help/reform the economy.
3. Describe Roosevelt’s steps to reform banking, labor and the economy through his New Deal programs.
4. Analyze the effects of the New Deal programs and the legacies it left.
Vocabulary Terms to Define:
Bull Market
Bear Marker
Buying on the Margin
Black Tuesday
Speculation
Overproduction
Deflation
Inflation
Price Supports
Credit
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Shantytowns
Dust Bowl
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Webquest Questions:
Great Depression Overview: Read the “Overview” and answer below
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html
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.?
Dust Bowl http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/151818/
1. What is another name for the Dust Bowl?
2. The Dust Bowl damaged American and Canadian prairie land from ____________.
3. The storms of the Dust Bowl were given names such as Black Blizzard and Black Roller because:
4. What were the 3 main causes of the Dust Bowl?
5. How many Americans were left homeless because of the Dust Bowl?
Stock Market Crash http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm
1. What is Capital?
2. Who owned the capital?
3. Ownership of the corporation was in the form of ______________4. In the 1920s stock prices quadrupled in value. Many investors were convinced that stocks were a sure thing and
___________________________________________________________________________________________
5. In 1929 stocks started down- _____ %- and had sharp effects in the economy.
6. What declined because people felt poor because of their losses in the stock market?
7. How were banks affected by the crash?
Economy of the 1930s http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html
1. If you had $100 during the 1930s, how much would it be equivalent to today?
2. The average cost of a new car in the 1930s was _____________ and by 1939 it was _________
3. *Click on Clothes Tab on the top- Clothing styles were less extravagant for the most part during the 1930s.
However, you could still tell between ___________________________ of this time.
4. *Click on Clothes Tab on the top- The invention of the __________________ was made popular by a designer named
Schiapparelli in the year 1933.
5. *Click on Toys Tab on the top- choose a toy and write the price of it:
6. *Click on Homes Tab on the top- find 2 facts about homes during this time
Roosevelt’s New Deal
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.html
1. The first days of Roosevelt’s administration saw the passage of what 4 programs?
2. The second new deal evolved and included 3 new programs, name them.
3. There are 2 examples of programs that were known by their acronyms- name programs & give the acronyms.
4. In the short term, the New Deal programs helped do what?
5. In the long run, the New Deal programs set what?
Hoovervilles u-s-history.com/pages/h1642.html
1. What was a “Hooverville” (define it)
2. Why were they called “Hoovervilles”?
3. Where was one of the largest Hoovervilles?
4. Describe characteristics of a Hooverville (give 3 facts)
Music of the Depression Age http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.html
*Go to link, click on “Depression” on the left side bar. Then click on Judy Garland (3rd picture on the right hand side).
1. What does the song “Somewhere over the Rainbow” galvanize (or show) for the 1930s?
Letters to the White House http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er3a.htm
*Read 2 letters to the White house (they MUST have responses) and answer the following questions for EACH letter
Letter 1:
1. What does the person want?
2. Why are they unable to buy it themselves?
3. What was the response from the White House?
Letter 2:
1. What does the person want?
2. Why are they unable to buy it themselves?
3. What was the response from the White House?