Assignments+for+the+study+of+the+Great+Depression

1 17 Read pages 729 to 733 and take at least 20 notes on the causes of the Great Depression Complete #2, 3abc and #4 on page 733

1 18 Read pages 734 to 738 and take at least 25 notes

Complete #2, 3abc and #4 on page 738

1 19 Essay: :

What is money and how do we use it?

How do depressions occur in an economy

What is the Federal Reserve’s job in the economy?

1 25 Crossword Puzzle on Great Depression

1 26 Read pages 739 to 743 and take at least 4 notes for each red heading. Write the heading and underline it

Page 743 # 2, 3abc and #4

1 27 Go To: [] Read the Primary Source documents and answer the 6 questions underneath the documents in your notebook : > ** 1. What caused the Great Depression? Was it an historical aberration or was it a predictable outcome of the kind of economic system that existed in the United States until the l930s? ** > ** 2. Describe the human toll of the Great Depression. ** > ** 3. What did people think caused of the Depression? ** > ** 4. Why did President Hoover resist taking radical steps to solve the Depression? ** > ** 5. What solutions did Franklin Roosevelt and Huey Long offer to the Depression? ** > ** 6. How effective were New Deal economic policies in solving the problems of the Depression? ** >