Great Depression Scavenger Hunt
1. Life During the Great Depression
a) What was unemployment in 1930? And in 1932?______
b) How many children between the ages of 10-18 worked in factories, canneries, mines and on farms for low wages during the Great Depression?______
c) Who played the "eviction game"? What were the “game pieces”?
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d) What is a "Hooverville"?______
e) Name two of the lessons learned during the Great Depression.______
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3. Dust Bowl Timeline
a) Using the Timeline how many dust storms were there in 1932? In 1933?
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b) Using the Timeline what happened to help stabilize the nation in March 1933?
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c) Using the Timeline how many states were affected severely by the drought in May 1934?______
d) Using the Timeline in 1935 the Soil Conservation Service developed an extensive soil conservation program. What were five farming practices that were “advocated”?
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5. Prices
a) Looking at the Wages table, how much was the average salary?______
b) Looking at the Wages table, how much per week did a doctor make?______
c) How much did a rain coat cost?______Gallon of Gasoline? ______
6. Social Security
a) How is social security funded?______
b) When was it signed into law?______
7. Social Security History
a) What did the proponents (those who favored Social Security) argue that got the Social Security Act passed?______
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b) In what year were payroll taxes first collected?______
c) Who was the first person to collect the first monthly payment?______
d) How much was his/her payment?______
e) The 1935 Act also included other programs. List two other groups that it helped.
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f) The Act was amended in 1939. What were the two changes?______
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8. To answer the questions below click on the links after each topic. Read the excerpt and write your answer.
Gene Wadsworth - http://www.standardsinstitutes.org/sites/default/files/material/tales_from_the_rails_._r.erican_experience_-_pbs.pdf
a) What did one of Gene’s cousins tell him that made him leave home? ______
b) What was the name of the boy that Gene traveled with and considered to be much like a brother? ______
c) What happened to Jim? ______
9. Look at the symbols http://www.angelfire.com/folk/famoustramp/signs.html
a) Draw the symbol that means “Can sleep in barn”? ______
b) Draw the symbol that means “Police officer lives here”? ______
c) Draw the symbol that means “unsafe place”? ______
10. Playtime for Kids
a) What new board games were popular during the depression? ______
b) The Apetz brothers had homemade toys. List 3 of these toys and of what they were made. ______
11) Family Food
a) What meat did the Apetz brothers eat a “Lotta lotta of “? ______
b) What were two popular meals that families ate during the Depression? ______
12) School Days
a) How did Mildred Opitz get to school? ______
b) What was the first Dr. Seuss rhyming book published? ______
13. Weird Facts
a) Why were fashion accessories like necklaces or scares so important during the Depression? ______
b) What two great structures were built during the Great Depression?
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c) How many women were abandoned by their husbands during this time?
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e) Why do scholars find the 2009 economic crisis more troubling that the 1929 Crash? Give two reasons. ______
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