LAKE BRANTLEY
HIGH SCHOOL
Great Depresion and New Deal SS.912.A.5.11
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You need to know the cause-and-effect relationships of economic trends as they relate to society in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.
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You need to know the impact of business practices, consumer patterns, and government policies of the 1920s and 1930s as they relate to the Great Depression and subsequent New Deal.
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You need to know the human experience during both the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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You need to know the long-term social, political, and economic consequences of the 1920s and 1930s on society in the United States and/or Florida.
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You need to know the effects of the changing role of tourism in Florida’s development and growth (1890–1930), the land boom and bust (1920–30), and/or the impact of the Great Depression (1926–40).
Example One
Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?
a. low worker productivity
b. high income taxes
c. decreasing tariff rates
d. buying stocks on margin
Example Three
President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that declaring a bank holiday and creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would help the nation’s banking system by
a. restoring public confidence in the banks
b. reducing government regulation of banks
c. restricting foreign investments
d. granting tax relief to individuals
Example Two
What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?
a. Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty.
b. Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States.
c. Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality.
d. Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.
Additional Resources
Terms to know include, but are not limited to:
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), bank holiday, Black Tuesday, Bonus Expeditionary Force, bull market, buying on margin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dust Bowl, economic boom, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Great Depression, Gross National Product (GNP), impact of climate and natural disasters, National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), National Recovery Act (NRA), National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, Recovery, Reform, Relief, Roaring Twenties, Sit-Down Strike, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Social Security, speculation boom, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Works Progress Administration (WPA).