The Great Depression GDP Review

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The Great Depression (GDP) Review

• Social Studies
• February 2008
• Mrs. Rattray

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Activities

• The following slides contain activities that you
  are to complete on loose leaf and hand in to Mrs.
  Rattray on Monday, March 3, 2008. This
  interactive review is 35 of your 3rd quarter
  grade.

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The Causes of The Great Depression

• Answer the following questions
• 1. How did the unequal distribution of wealth,
  affect the American economy?
• 2. Identify the groups affected by this unequal
  distribution.
• 3. How did the industry and agriculture, cause
  the GDP?
• 4. Define the term On Margin.

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929

• 1. What warnings did the stock brokers have,
  signaling the market was going to crash?
• 2. How did the American people respond to the
  crash of the Stock Market?

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President Herbert Hoover

• Create a list of programs President Hoover
  created to assist in the crisis, the GDP.
• Why were the American people so angry with this
  President?
• How did President Hoover explain his reasons for
  limited governmental support?

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A New President is Elected

• Create a short essay explaining the role of
  President
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, in correcting the GDP.
• Hint Use your textbook and any other outside
  research you deem accurate.

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The New Deal

• Arguments For

• Arguments Against

• Complete this T-Chart

• Complete this T-Chart

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An Excerpt from Out of the Dust

• Outlined by Dust My father stares at mewhile I
  sit across from him at the table,while I wash
  dishes in the basin,my back to him,the picked
  and festered bits of my hands in agony.He stares
  at meas I empty the wash water at the rootsof
  Ma's apple trees.
• He spend long daysdigging for the electric-train
  folkswhen they can use him,or working
  here,nursing along the wheat,what there is of
  it,or digging the pond.
• He sings sometimes under his breath,even
  now,even after so much sorrow.He sings a man's
  song,deep with what has happened to us.It
  doesn't swing lightlythe way Ma's voice did,the
  way Miss Freeland's voice does,the way Mad Dog
  sings.My father's voice starts and stops,like a
  car short of gas,like an engine choked with
  dust,but then he clears his throatand the song
  starts up again.
• He rubs his eyesthe way I do,with his palms
  out.Ma never did that.And he wipes the mild
  from hisupper lip same as me,with his thumb and
  forefinger.Ma never did that, either.
• We don't talk much.My father never was a talker.

• Ma's dying hasn't changed that.I guess he gets
  the sound out of him with thesongs he sings.
• I can't help thinkinghow it is for him,without
  Ma.Waking up alone, onlyhis shapeleft in the
  bed,outlined by dust.He always smelled a little
  like herfirst thing in the morning,when he left
  her in bedand went out to do the milking.She'd
  scuff into the kitchen a few minutes
  later,bleary eyed,to start breakfast.I don't
  think she was everreally meant for farm life,I
  think once she had bigger dreams,but she made
  herself overto fit my father.
• Now he smells of dustand coffee,tobacco and
  cows.None of the musky woman smell left that was
  Ma.
• He stares at me,maybe he is looking for Ma.He
  won't find her.I look like him,I stand like
  him,I walk across the kitchen floorwith that
  long-legged walkof his.I can't make myself over
  the way Ma did.
• And yet, if I could look in the mirror and see
  her inmy face.If I could somehow know that
  Maand baby Franklinlived on in me...
• But it can't be.I'm my father's daughter.
• January 1935

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The Dust Bowl

• How does the excerpt above and the artwork to
  your right explain the difficult life experiences
  of those living during the Great Depression?

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Explain in a short essay, how the Depression
affected African, Mexican, Asian, Native
Americans and Women.
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The Arts and The Great Depression

• Explain the context of the following book,
  painting, and films