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= THE GREAT DEPRESSION =



Click on each URL below and answer the questions about the Great Depression that follow.
[|Overview] 1. How many people were unemployed in 1933? 2. What was a Hooverville? 3. Who was elected President in 1932? 4. What did FDR do that no other president in history did (or can ever do)? 5. What was FDR's plan to end the Great Depression? 6. What major event helped to end the Depression? How?

[|How much did things cost?]

7. How much was a used Model T Ford? 8. How much did a Milky Way candy bar cost? 9. If you are a factory worker earning $15.00 a month and live in a tenement building, how much money do you have left to buy food? What if you earned $15.00 a week? 10. What would you buy to feed a family of six for a day if you had $1.50? If you buy meat or fish, you should plan on buying 3 pounds. 11. Plan family meals for a whole week. How much money would you need for food to buy everything you wanted?

[|Dust Bowl]

12. How did man contribute to the Dust Bowl? 13. How many dust storms were there in 1933 and what states were most affected? 14. How did government respond to the Dust Bowl in 1935? 15. What was FDR's Shelterbelt program?

[|FDR's response]

16. How many people were unemployed when FDR took office? 17. Which country had a higher unemployment rate than the US? 18. How did FDR and Hoover disagree on the role of government to help people during the Depression? 19. What did the New Deal do for the country's GNP? 20. How did the Depression finally end?

When you are done, go back and look at your answer to question 11. How much would it cost to purchase the same items today?

Websites used to create this scavenger hunt:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/depression/dustbowl.htm http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm http://www.todaysteacher.com/TheGreatDepressionWebQuest