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This week we will begin Topic 13 The Great Depression and the New Deal.

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Essential Question:

What are some of the contrasting theories as to what caused the Great Depression?

Learning Objectives

Topic 13.1 Causes of The Depression

Objectives: Identify how weaknesses in the economy in the 1920’s caused the Great depression. Explain why the stock market crashed in 1929 and the crash’s effect on the economy. Describe how the Great depression deepened in the US and spread overseas. Identify the causes of the Great Depression and discuss how historians differ about them.

Topic 13.2 Americans Suffer

Objectives: Examine the spread of unemployment in America’s cities. Analyze the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers. Analyze the impact of human and geographical factors that created the Dust Bowl. Describe how the Great Depression affected family life and the lives of African Americans and Mexican Americans.

Topic 13.3 Two Presidents Respond

Objectives: Contrast Hoover’s Approach to the economic crisis with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s approach. Describe the programs that were part of the first New Deal and the effect on the lives of Americans.

Topic 13.4 The New Deal Expands

Objectives: Analyze the ways that the New Deal promoted social and economic reform and its long-term effects. Explain how New Deal legislation affected the growth of organized labor. Evaluate Roosevelt’s plan to increase the number of US Supreme Court justices on the course of the New Deal.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 13.1 Causes of The Depression
2. Topic 13.2 Americans Suffer
3. Topic 13.3 Two Presidents Respond
4. Topic 13.4 The New Deal Expands

Last Week’s Assignments

1. Topic 12 Quiz
2. Topic 13 Pre-Quiz
3. Topic 12.9 The Harlem Renaissance