Monday, March 29, 2010

Great Depression Part 2 Review

Great Depression Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How did GD affect cities? Ordinary people didn’t really understand the stock market’s crash and reasons

How did the unemployed live? They went from factory to factory trying to find a job and most of them took them their families to bread lines

How did GD affect farmers? As prices fell and drought ensued farmers fell further and further into debt. Many of them lost their farms

What other problems did farmers face? Lost of fertile in their land migrating to other cites looking for a new way to live

How did GD affect family life? Man sank into shame and despair with some even leaving their families. Birthrates drop, women worked constantly to support family, children dropped out of schools, and some children ran away

How did Hoover try to handle the depression? By letting business itself come out of the depression which happened to fail so Hoover decided to built the Hoover Dam which worked!!

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