The Great Depression Webercise

How did the Great Depression Start

http://youtu.be/VpKmfjf5tUk
1. Why do we say that America lost its way? 2. In what year and how did the Great Depression start? 3. How did the next three years change America and Americans forever? (what happened to banks, jobs, schools, businesses? Provide numbers) 4. What was the Dust Bowl? 5. How did it affect farmers and what did they do to escape the effects? 6. Did the Depression affect African Americans and Whites at the same time? (explain your answer)

The New Deal

http://www.nps.gov/shen/photosmultimedia/upload/CCC_Curric_Part1_Interactive.swf

7. What caused panic among the population by the end of 1931? 8. What was the New Deal? 9. What is the First 100 Days? 10. What were the CCC camps and who enrolled in them? 11. How did the economic crisis in the country improve? 12. What is the lasting legacy of the CCC?

Where was It?

http://docsteach.org/activities/74 Do the Interactive activity and answer the following questions on here. 13. Where was the New Deal? 14. Create a list of the various types of jobs you saw in the photographs. For each job, note if it was a part of the WPA, CCC, or TVA. 15. What do you think was the goal of these three programs?

Rebuilding a Nation
http://www.nps.gov/shen/photosmultimedia/upload/CCC_Curric_Part2_Interactive.swf Do the interactive activity and answer the following questions on here. 16. What would you do if this 16 year old boy was you? 17. How did the economic crisis affect kids lives? 18. What is your opinion about the many programs during the Great Depression? In your opinion, were they of great help for families like the 16 year old boy in the story or do you think that they separated young kids from their families? There is no wrong answer to this question. Feel free to write whatever is your opinion about this story. A few helpful links with more interesting information about the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, videos, and pictures. Have fun! http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-inaugural/ http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-depression.cfm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/fdr/