Lesson 2: Great Depression and New Deal
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
SWBAT identify the causes and impact of the economic crash of 1929-1940 and evaluate the Federal government's attempt to rescue the economy.
How successful was the New Deal in ending the effects of the Great Depression?
economic depression
bank failure
relief
recovery
reform
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal Programs
Keynesian Economics
INQ 9–12.6, INQ 9–12.7, INQ 9–12.8, INQ 9–12.9, HIST 9–12.8, HIST 9–12.9, HIST 9–12.10, HIST 9–12.11, HIST 9–12.12
The purpose of this topic is to give students the factual evidence and resources needed to make a complex argument about economic history based on their own research. Therefore, it calls on many aspects of DOK 3 and 4.
The most basic understanding should be a demonstration of the experiments in relief, recovery, and reform attempted by the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s. After this students should be able to evaluate their effect, and eventually identify ways in which similar experiments could or would have an impact on contemporary economic issues.