Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The Great Depression



Dear Fifth Graders,

Please work with your group to write an answer for the following essays.  Your answers should be in paragraph format and your text book can be used as a resource. Good luck!

1.  What happened to American farmers on the Great Plains and in the South during the Great Depression?

2.  In what way was President Roosevelt's idea of what government should do to help citizens during the Great Depression more effective than Herbert Hoover's idea of government?

3.  What types of programs made up the New Deal? What effects did these programs have on people and the economy of the United States?