The Great Depression

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Social Studies

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4th - 7th Grade

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The Great Depression

Today we will learn about the causes and effects of The Great Depression.

Essential Question

What caused the Great Depression and what were the effects?

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What do you already know about The Great Depression?

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Want to Know

Write 2-3 Questions you have about The Great Depression.

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Learned

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Multiple Choice

What event, know as Black Tuesday started The Great Depression?

The Dust Bowl

The New Deal

The Stock Exchange Crashed

The President, Herbert Hoover

Multiple Choice

What was the time after World War I known as?

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Nineties

World War I History

The Era of Jazz

Multiple Choice

During the Roaring Twenties, what did people spend their money on?

Farm Equipment

New Technologies

Stocks and Bonds

Nothing, People Saved

Multiple Choice

Which of these inventions helped to increase American's debt?

The Radio

The Federal Reserve

Credit

The Car

Multiple Choice

Which event can cause a recession?

The President

More supplies than demand

The banks giving free money

The beginning of a war.

Multiple Choice

Who was the president during The Great Depression.

Donald Trump

Abraham Lincoln

Ronald Reagan

Herbert Hoover

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Multiple Choice

What year was the stock market crash that was one of the causes of The Great Depression?

1920

1989

1929

2020

Multiple Choice

How much money did the stock market loose in one day during the stock market crash?

$14 billion

$14 thousand

$14 hundred

$14 million

Multiple Choice

How many years passed before the stock market hit the high it was at prior to the crash?

100

Multiple Choice

How many banks failed in the first few years of the Great Depression?

over 100 banks

over 10 banks

over 1,000 banks

over 10,000 banks

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-Names of people/places

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-Important/Interesting facts

Fill in the Blanks

What word from the box completes this sentence?

The dust storms destroyed 100 milion

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of land.

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What word from the box completes this sentence?

During the Roaring Twenties, people bought things they could not afford by

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money.

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During the Great Depression, the entire world

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was struggling.

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What word from the box completes this sentence?

During the Great Depression companies were making more

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than they could sell.

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Essential Question

What caused the Great Depression and what were the effects?

The Great Depression was caused by____________. The effects of the Great Depression were_______________________.

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