rESEARCH pROJECT
great depression and recession
People Who Made A Difference
Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles Coughlin Huey P. Long Fritz Kuhn Eleanor Roosevelt Lorena Hickok Upton Sinclair Francis Townsend |
The Essentials
Questions: • What underlying issues and conditions led to the Great Depression? • What economic conditions led to the stock market crash of 1929? • Why were the policies of the Hoover Administration ineffective in dealing with the problems of the Depression? • Why did the New Deal seek to solve the problems of the Depression through public works, rather than the dole? • What impact did the New Deal have on arts and letters in the 1930s? • How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt change the role of the presidency in American history? • How successful was the New Deal in solving the problems of the Depression and restoring American prosperity? Terms: • "Bonus Army" • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) • Crash of 1929 • Dawes Plan • Eighteenth Amendment • Emergency Banking Relief Act • Emergency Quota Act • Fair Labor Standards Act • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) • Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) • Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act • Hatch Act • Immigration Act of 1924 • Indian Reorganization Act • Nineteenth Amendment |
Other
• What was life like during the Great Depression? • What was the main cause of the Great Depression? • How long did the recovery from the Great Depression take? • The Dust Bowl |