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Primary
New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Photo Gallery: Soup Kitchens and Breadlines

For Students 9th - 10th
Several photographs from the Great Depression depicting people standing in breadlines and at soup kitchens.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Market Crashes

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how in just five days a shaky stock market crashed and helped plunge the country into the Great Depression.
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Activity
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Lange: Migrant Mother [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about and analysis of a characteristic work by Dorothea Lange, who documented the affects of the Great Depression on the American poor.
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Unit Plan
Other

Seattle Municipal Archives: Hoovervilles in Seattle

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief acount of how the Great Depression affected Seattle, especially where the so-called Hoovervilles were located.
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Activity
Other

Mackinac Center: The Crash of 1929 an Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyzes the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and looks closely at the factors leading up to the Crash. Gives a perspective from the State of Michigan. A Graph is included to show the rise of unemployment during the Great Depression....
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PPT
Other

Brotherston and Volpert: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
A downloadable PowerPoint presentation (46 slides) on the Stock Market crash of 1929. Slides present information about the possible causes of the crash, the events of Black Thursday, the causes of the Great Depression, the failed...
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Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the general outline of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act and how it was set up to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression.
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Website
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: National Youth Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the National Youth Administration, part of the WPA, explains how it helped unemployed young men and women during the Great Depression.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The New Deal

For Students 5th - 8th
A brief biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the ideas he had for getting the United States back on its feet during the Great Depression.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Dust Bowl Days

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Seven-instructional activity collection of lessons and suggested activities for instructing early learners about the Dust Bowl using a variety of primary sources (songs, letters, photos, etc.).
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Article
Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Achieving Economic Stability: Lessons From the Crash of 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides access to the text of the speech "Achieving Economic Stability: Lessons From the Crash of 1929" by Gary H. Stern, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It compares the Crash of 1929 to the Crash of 1987.
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Website
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Herbert Hoover

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.org gives extensive biographical information on Herbert Hoover based on the collection in the Herbert Hoover Museum.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Rise and Crash [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A great explanaton of how the bull market was started in the stock market in March of 1928, and how, through speculaton and buying on margin, pushed up stock prices. See how the bubble burst over a series of days in October, 1929,...
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Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Strikes and Unions

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Depression built the modern labor movement by growing and strengthening unions. Follow the labor movement through a day-by-day database of newspaper articles chronicling strikes in Washington State. Additionally, students can...
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Article
Other

Michigan.gov: Roosevelt's Tree Army: Michigan's Civilian Conservation Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
Lengthy text history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan. Includes details of the lives and activities of the young men who enrolled, as well as historical photos.
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Graphic
US National Archives

Nara: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Archives and Records Administration, provides this article with historic photographs of people and places in the 1930s.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Bound for Glory

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating look at American life from 1939 to 1943 through photographs. The buildings, cars, clothing, and stores are very different from today. This is an excellent way to get a feel for the turn of the decade -- from the Depression...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Sinking Deeper and Deeper

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the creeping descent into depression in the United States upon the crash of the stock market. Find out how the economy collapsed, and how that affected employment and the lives of millions.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Leaving, but Staying

For Students 9th - 10th
Accounts of African American migrations from the rural South to Southern cities. This resource provides not just accounts of the Great Migration focusing on the flight from the South to the North, but also the migration within the South...
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Stock Market Fell to Lowest Point

For Students 3rd - 8th
This 3-page article provides a general overview of the devastation caused by the fallen stock market during the Depression.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Economic Growth and Stability

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the early 20th Century, post-depression era period of economic growth and stability brought about by Keynesian economics and the New Deal.
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Handout
Other

Lincoln City Libraries: Nebraska's Federal Writers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Rudolph Umland's writing, correspondence, and scrapbooks offer revealing portraits of life in Depression era Nebraska, and a uniquely well-documented insider's view of the local literary community and the Nebraska Federal Writers' Project.
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Graphic
Flow of History

Flow of History: Post War Boom and Bust

For Students 9th - 10th
A great graphic and explanatory text that give a succinct description of the boom and bust cycle and resulting problems in the 1920s.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly is forced to leave the life of a wealthy landowner's daughter surrounded by servants to become a servant herself among an extended...