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section 3 review
- key words
- Identify and explain the importance of the following words: bread lines, dust bowl, dust storms, migrate, sharecropper, squatter.
- COMPREHENSION
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How did the high unemployment rate effect society?
- COMPREHENSION
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What were three of the main problems facing farmers?
- MAKING CONNECTIONS
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What ways did the government try to help farmers? Were
they successful? Why or why not?
- ANALYZING EVENTS
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Why do you think the Supreme Court declared the 1939
California law forbidding state entry unconstitutional?
- ANALYZING EVENTS
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Why do you think comic books with superheroes were so
popular during the Great Depression?
- WRITING
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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.