Task 1: Investigating the causes of the Depression
Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/rails-timeline/ and answer the following questions:
1) When did the Great Depression begin? What event sparked it?
2) Locate November 1930 on the timeline: What did many Americans do to earn money during the depression?
3) Locate February and March 1931 on the timeline: What sort of actions were American demonstrations taking part in during the Great Depression? Why?
4) Find on the timeline when FDR was elected President of the United States. Who was FDR’s opponent and why didn’t Americans elect him instead?
Task 2: Evidence of the Depression
Go to http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/photos# and view each picture in the slideshow along with their captions. Then answer the following questions:
5) Name 4 things people are waiting in line for.
6) Before the state and federal governments provided assistance, who was providing relief to Americans?
7) 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?
Task 3: Then and Now
Go to http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html and record the prices of items from the 1930's and then compare them to the prices of today.
8) What was the price of a man's shirt in the 1930's?
9) What is it now?
10) Locate and record the prices of five (5) common household items that your family uses.
11) How much do they cost now?
Task 4: Hoovervilles
Go to http://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville.shtml and read about Hoovervilles.
12) What were Hoovervilles and why were they called that?
13) In 1934, how many Hoovervilles were there in Seattle?
Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/rails-timeline/ and answer the following questions:
1) When did the Great Depression begin? What event sparked it?
2) Locate November 1930 on the timeline: What did many Americans do to earn money during the depression?
3) Locate February and March 1931 on the timeline: What sort of actions were American demonstrations taking part in during the Great Depression? Why?
4) Find on the timeline when FDR was elected President of the United States. Who was FDR’s opponent and why didn’t Americans elect him instead?
Task 2: Evidence of the Depression
Go to http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/photos# and view each picture in the slideshow along with their captions. Then answer the following questions:
5) Name 4 things people are waiting in line for.
6) Before the state and federal governments provided assistance, who was providing relief to Americans?
7) 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?
Task 3: Then and Now
Go to http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html and record the prices of items from the 1930's and then compare them to the prices of today.
8) What was the price of a man's shirt in the 1930's?
9) What is it now?
10) Locate and record the prices of five (5) common household items that your family uses.
11) How much do they cost now?
Task 4: Hoovervilles
Go to http://depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville.shtml and read about Hoovervilles.
12) What were Hoovervilles and why were they called that?
13) In 1934, how many Hoovervilles were there in Seattle?