Chapter 24: The Great Depression 

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key words
Identify and explain the importance of the following words: bread lines, dust bowl, dust storms, migrate, sharecropper, squatter.
COMPREHENSION
How did the high unemployment rate effect society?

COMPREHENSION
What were three of the main problems facing farmers?

MAKING CONNECTIONS
What ways did the government try to help farmers? Were they successful? Why or why not?

ANALYZING EVENTS
Why do you think the Supreme Court declared the 1939 California law forbidding state entry unconstitutional?

ANALYZING EVENTS
Why do you think comic books with superheroes were so popular during the Great Depression?

WRITING
Write an essay that analyzes and assesses the overall effects of the Great Depression on cities, farms, and society. Discuss the major problems and how people coped, how the government acted, and how the entertainment industry tried to help.

To learn more about the USA during the Depression era, read The Great Depression: America 1929–1941 by Robert S. McElvaine, or The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by T. H. Watkins.