Introduction
This webquest will cover the following standards:
SSUSH17 Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
- Describe the causes, including overproduction, underconsumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
- Explain factors (include over-farming and climate) that led to the Dust Bowl and the resulting movement and migration west.
- Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as Hoovervilles.
SSUSH18 Evaluate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the Great Depression and compare how governmental programs aided those in need.
- Describe Roosevelt’s attempts at relief, recovery, and reform reflected in various New Deal programs.
- Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal.
- Analyze political challenges to Roosevelt’s leadership and New Deal programs.
- Examine how Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the First Lady including development of New Deal programs to aid those in need.
Task
Click on the following links and answer the questions on your answer sheet.
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/rails-timeline/
1. When did the Great Depression begin?
2. What event sparked it?
3. Locate November 1930 on the timeline: What did many Americans do to earn money during the depression?
4. Locate February and March 1931 on the timeline: What sorts of actions were Americans demonstrations were Americans taking part in during the Great Depression? Why?
5. Find on the timeline when FDR was elected President of the United States. Who was FDR’s opponent?
6. What did FDR deliver for the first time on March 12, 1933?
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html
7. How many Americans were unemployed during the worst part of the Depression?
8. What was the name given to FDR’s presidency?
9. Explain one effect of the Depression in other parts of the world.
10. What finally brought an end to the Depression in the U.S.?
Go to the following website and view each picture in the slideshow along with their captions to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/photos
11. Name 4 things people are waiting in line for.
12. Before the state and federal governments provided assistance, who was providing relief to Americans?
13. A subsistence level is the bare minimum of basic needs that a family requires to survive. What percentage of American families was living below this level during the Depression?
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Dust_Bowl
14. Explain what the Dust Bowl was.
15. What were the two main causes of the Dust Bowl.
16. Explain what the Dust Bowl caused people in that region to do.
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html
17. What was the average yearly income in 1930?
18. How much was a gallon of gas in 1930?
19. What superhero appeared in a comic for the first time in the 1930s?
20. Name 3 sporting changes during the 1930s – not all from the same sport – choose 3 sports and 1 change from each.
21. Name 3 new inventions of the 1930s and the year they were invented.
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
22. What 4 types of programs were passed at the beginning of FDR’s administration?
23. Name 3 things included as part of the Second New Deal.
24. What was the WPA?
25. What was the CCC?
26. What did many people say the New Deal programs reminded them of?
Look in the box to the right of the screen. Click on the link that says “Alphabet Soup” to answer the following questions
27. What do you see in this photograph?
28. Do you think the government spent their money wisely?
29. Explain your answer to number 28.
Go to the following website to answer the questions that follow:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1642.html
30. What were Hoovervilles?
31. Why were they called Hoovervilles?
32. What is another name for a Hooverville?