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Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins-WebQuest

Objectives: Students will be able to identify the causes and effects of the Great Depression. Students will be able to evaluate how the Depression affected Americans.

Procedure: Follow the links listed below to answer the questions about the Great Depression.

Wall Street Crash

  1. Click on Page 1:What were Hoovervilles?
  1. Click on Page 2:List four causes of the Great Depression:
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  1. Click on Page 3:List four effects of the Great Depression:
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Poverty in the 1920s

  1. Some groups did not participate in the consumer economy of the 1920s. How did the 1920s affect farmers and immigrants?

View each image in the slide show along with their captions. Use the information to answer questions 5-7.

  1. Identify four things the people standing in line are waiting for:
  1. Before the federal government and state governments began providing assistance who’s shoulders did the burden of caring for American families fall on?
  1. The subsistence level is considered the bare minimum of basic needs that a family must have in order to survive. Knowing this what percentage of American families were living below this level during the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover: The Basics(Followthe Hoover Summary link, then use the Table of Contents)

  1. Click on Part 5:(Inevitable Candidate) List two accomplishments of Hoover’s Administration.
  1. Click onPart 6:(War on a thousand Fronts) What did Hoover blame the Great Depression on?

Herbert Hoover: The 31st President 1929-1933

  1. After the crash, what programs did Hoover present to Congress?
  1. According to Hoover, whose responsibility was it to care for people?

Outside Websites: Go to these websites and answer the questions:

  1. What was the percentage of business gains in the 1920s? How much did workers gain?
  1. During the Great Depression, how many workers were unemployed?
  1. Herbert Hoover’s underestimated the seriousness of the depression when he said, “ It is a ______.”
  1. Why didn’t Hoover offer direct relief?
  1. How did FDR attack the Depression?
  1. How did the Depression and the New Deal affect the relationship between Americans and government?
  1. What is a share?
  1. What effects did the stock market crash have on the economy?

20. What did FDR do to prevent similar disasters?