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What caused the Great Depession and how did the United States survive and recover from it? |
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Student Learning Map
- Topic:The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Subject(s):Social Studies
- Days:16
- Grade(s):11
Key Learning:
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 plunged the United States into a decade of depression. President Franklin Roosevelt launched a series of programs called The New Deal designed to provide relief for people in need, recovery for the economy, and reform to prevent such a depression from recurring. Because of the New Deal, the role of the government was forever changed.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Concept: The economic crash of 1929 was the culmination of a decade of economic concerns.
Concept: The Great Depression affected farmers, workers, children and minorities in various ways.
Concept: President Roosevelt offered many programs and a glimmer of hope to desperate Americans
Lesson Essential Question(s):What issues with industry, farmers, and consumers contributed to the economic crash?
How did speculation and buying on margin affect the stock market?
What was the impact of bank and business failures and a high protective tariff?
Lesson Essential Question(s):How did the Depression affect cities and rural area in similar and different ways?
How were the lives of children changed by the Great Depression?
What were some changes for African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans in this era?
Lesson Essential Question(s):What was President Hoover's response to the economic situation, and how did the American public feel about this response?
How did President Roosevelt offer hope in the New Deal?
How did liberals and conservatives differ in their opposition to the New Deal?
How did the focus of the Second New Deal change?
Vocabulary:price supports, credit, uneven distribution of income, Dow Jones Industrial Average, speculation, buying on margin, bull market, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Vocabulary:shantytowns, soup kitchens, breadlines, Dust Bowl, hobo, direct relief, "Black Cabinet", John Collier
Vocabulary:New Deal, Glass-Steagall Act, Federal Securities Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civiilian Conservation Corps, National Industrial Recovery Act, deficit spending, "Court-packing bill", Huey Long, Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration, Wagner Act, Social Security Act
Concept: The New Deal had a lasting impact on American society.
Concept: Concept: Lesson Essential Question(s):What has been the lasting influence of films, art, music and literature from the Great Depression?
What are the lasting influences of the New Deal in banking, the stock market, and labor relations?
How do New Deal reforms continue to protect the elderly and farmers?
Was the New Deal beneficial or harmful to the environment?
Lesson Essential Question(s):Lesson Essential Question(s):Vocabulary:Orson Welles, Grant Wood, Woody Guthrie, Richard Wright, John Steinbeck, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Act, parity, Tennessee Valley Authority
Vocabulary:Vocabulary:
Additional Info:
The Americans, Chapters 14-15; United streaming and othe audio visual materials; excerpts from primary source documents and "The Grapes of Wrath" to illustrate the Great Depression's toll on individuals.
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