This site works in conjunction with my 8th grade U.S. history class. We cover 20th Century U.S. history, current events, and the U.S. and Illinois constitutions. Homework can be viewed on the Middle School website.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Questions about the Great Depression
1. What was the New Deal?
2. What was the Dust Bowl?
3. What is deficit spending and why is it good and bad?
4. What do speculation and buying on margin mean?
5. What is a sit-down strike and why was it successful?
6. What where the economic problems of the 20s that lead to the Great Depression?
7. When the stock market crashed, what sequence of events led to massive unemployment?
8. What are three New Deal programs that are still around?
9. In the 1930s, what did liberal politicians favor? Which political party? Is the same true now?
10. In the 1930s, what did conservative politicians favor? Which political party? Is the same true now?
11. What was life like during the Great Depression?
12. Which problem of the Great Depression was FDR able to improve the most?
13. What ended the Great Depression?
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