Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins
The year is 1929. The U.S. economy has collapsed. Farms, businesses, and banks nationwide are failing, causing massive unemployment and poverty. You are out of work with little prospect of finding a job.
High School Social Studies Content Expectations
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7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and
consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing
• the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fi scal
policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl
• the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental
conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families
• Hoover’s policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including
• expanding the federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl
and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers,
farmers, poor, and elderly
• opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then
accepting New Deal laws
• consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers’ rights, development of Social
Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
8.2.3 Comparing Domestic Policies – Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast
Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, Johnson’s Great Society programs, and Reagan’s market-based domestic
policies.
Michigan Department of Education
7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and
consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing
• the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fi scal
policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl
• the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental
conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families
• Hoover’s policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including
• expanding the federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl
and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers,
farmers, poor, and elderly
• opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then
accepting New Deal laws
• consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers’ rights, development of Social
Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
8.2.3 Comparing Domestic Policies – Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast
Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, Johnson’s Great Society programs, and Reagan’s market-based domestic
policies.
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Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins
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