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GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL WEBQUEST
Great Depression
Go toand answer the following questions:
1) When did the Great Depression begin? What event sparked it?
2)Locate November 1930 on the timeline:What did manyAmericans do to earn money during the depression?
3)Locate February and March 1931 on the timeline:What sort of actions were Americans demonstrations were Americans taking part in during the Great Depression? Why?
4)Find on the timelinewhen FDR was elected President of the United States. Who was FDR’s opponent and why didn’t Americans elect him instead?
Go to 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?
NEW DEAL
Go To and answer the following questions:
8) What percentage of the WPA workforce was made up of women?
9) According to the article, what did the WPA build?
10) When support of artists was questioned, what was Harry Hopkins’ response?
Go to
Check out the beautiful art on this site. Go to part I and II. Then answer the following questions:
10) What topic does this site cover?
11) Describe the types of art produced by the government sponsored artists.
12) How did employing artists help America during the Great Depression?
Go to and answer the following question:
13) What was the CCC slogan?
Go to and answer the following questions:
14) How many teenagers “rode the rails” during the Great Depression?
15) Click on special features…..then click “Tales from the Rails.”Choose two of the tales. Tell me about the tales?
Go to and answer the following questions:
16) What types of foods are missing from the list?
17) How does the CCC menu compare with what people eat today?
Go to and answer the following questions:
18)How many were unemployed at during 1933?
19)How many were unemployed at during 1934?
Go to:Teacher Resources - Feature - American Memory Timeline: Great Depression - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Read the “Overview” and answer below
1. What event started the Great Depression?
2. How many Americans were unemployed during the worst part of the Depression?
3. Explain one effect of the Depression in other parts of the world.
4. What finally brought an end to the Depression in the U.S.?
Go to:Dust Bowl
5. Explain what the Dust Bowl was and its two main causes.
6. Explain what the Dust Bowl caused people in that region to do.
Go to:stock market crash
7. Explain what happened with the stock market and banks to cause the Great Depression:
Go to:1930's
8. What was the price of a man's shirt in the 1930's?:
9. What is it now?
Go to:Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
10. Explain what President Franklin Roosevelt did to restructure America during the Depression. Include an explanation of the New Deal in your answer.
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11. What were Hoovervilles and why were they called that?
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12. How did people spend their free time during the Depression?
13. How much did a loaf of bread cost in the 1930's?.
Do a Google image search for “Great Depression”
14. What is the feeling you get of life in 1930's America?:
This photo was taken by Dorothea Lange
15. Why do you think this photo is the MOST famous photo of the Depression?: