The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal
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“Provides appealing and engaging support for American history students trying to make sense of the Great Depression . . . glossary, vocabulary exercises, key questions, and suggestions for games, projects, and experiments, helps make this a useful research tool and teaching resource.”
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“This new volume illuminates not just the economic crisis that the Great Depression unleashed, but the range of human responses that rose to confront it, and the fascinating politics, culture, and society that took shape as a result.”
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“This book presents a fine overview of America's economic, political, social, and cultural history, 1929-1941. While it rightly defines these years as a time of widespread insecurity and poverty, the book also presents the stories of political leaders, businesses, and working people whose creative responses to the Great Depression made America a stronger, more prosperous, and more democratic society in the long run.”
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In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s from the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 compare and contrast the America of today with an America that saw extreme unemployment, food riots, the Dust Bowl, the invention of the analog computer, and the first splitting of the atom.
- The 1930s was a pivotal time in American history and has had lasting consequences on the consciousness of an entire generation of Americans.
- Investigating previous events in the country's history can help students understand the causes and effects of the most recent recession.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Timeline
Introduction
A Turbulent Time
Chapter 1
Boom to Bust
Chapter 2
Not a Job in Sight
Chapter 3
A New Deal
Chapter 4
A Dusty Disaster
Chapter 5
Quintuplets, Gangsters, and Monopoly
Chapter 6
Inventing the World of Tomorrow
Chapter 7
War and Recovery
Glossary
Resources
Index