Effects of the Great Depression

Open Ended

Tape your Great Depression Identity to your folder so you can reference it later.

Now Thinking back to yesterday, which cause of the Great Depression had the biggest impact on your person and why?

Fill in the Blank

During the Great Depression, if a soup kitchen ran out of food, people simply went ___.

Hotspot

Which region of the country would be the most likely to experience the effects we just discussed? Be prepared to explain why you pick your region!

Multiple Choice

Which effect of the Great Depression is described by the term 'Hoovervilles'?

• Unemployment

• Homelessness

• Hunger

• Psychological impact

Multiple Select

Select ALL the effects of the Great Depression that directly resulted from widespread unemployment.

• Homelessness

• Hunger

• Psychological impact

• Increased immigration

Multiple Choice

What was the primary reason nomadic men and boys became hobos during the Great Depression?

• To seek adventure

• To avoid military service

• To look for work and reduce the burden on their families

• To escape from the law

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the environmental conditions during the Dust Bowl in the Midwestern U.S. in the 1930s?

• Heavy rainfall and flooding

• Extended drought, high winds, and dust storms

• Mild temperatures and calm weather

• Frequent earthquakes and landslides

Open Ended

Explain how the Homestead Act and new farming technology contributed to the causes of the Dust Bowl.

Fill in the Blank

During the Dust Bowl, many people migrated to ___ to work as migrant farm workers.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following were effects of the Dust Bowl on farmers and agriculture?

• Increased crop yields and profits

• Farmers lost their land and migrated west

• Stable temperatures and rainfall

• Expansion of urban areas in the Midwest

Multiple Choice

Based on the map, which states experienced the most severe loss of topsoil during the Dust Bowl?

• Texas and Oklahoma

• California and Nevada

• North Dakota and South Dakota

• Florida and Georgia

Draw

Think about your Great Depression Identity! Draw a picture that Dorothea Lange may have taken of your person

Open Ended

Can you think of another muckraker who did something similar?

Exit Ticket Time!
Notes Away!

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes how investment in the stock market during the mid to late 1920s contributed to the Great Depression?

• people weren't able to repay the loans used to purchase stocks

• Government taxes on stock transactions made it difficult to repay investors

• financial institutions were not required to report earnings to stop investors

• foreign countries were not required to immediately pay stockholder earnings

Multiple Choice

Which phrase correctly replaces the question mark in this diagram?

• increase in minimum wage

• growth of immigration

• increase in unemployment

• growth and consumer spending

Hotspot

In what region did the Dust Bowl Take Place? (During Great Depression)

Multiple Choice

This excerpt describes the practices of stock-market investors in 1928.

Based on the excerpt and your knowledge of US History, how did this practice lead to the stock-market crash of 1920?

• Investors withdrew their stock sale profits from banks, causing multiple failures

• Investors bought shares in small companies, which encouraged business spending

• Investors paid taxes to the government based on the number of shares sold

• Investors created a false sense of prosperity before selling their stocks at inflated prices

Multiple Choice

The following picture was taken by who?

• John Steinbeck

• Dorothea Lange

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt

Multiple Choice

Pictures like this one by Dorothea Lange were taken to

• celebrate the prosperity of urban families
• promote agricultural advancements in the 1930s
• document the struggles of displaced families during the Great Depression
• document the struggles of Mexican Repatriaton