The Great Depression
Witnesses spoke about the events after the Black Tuesday: suicides, sudden poverty, bankrupts, debts …
Listen to the interviews and find out what happened in Americans’ day life.
Which was the mood in the US in 1929? Download the worksheet and do the assignments after listening the interviews of Leroy Hankle and Carla Due
Not everyone agreed: read the following telegram, written in 1929 by an American business leader. He is describing the future after the Wall Street Crash.
Which source is trustworthy? What did really happen after 1929?
The causes of the Great Depression
As well as the Wall Street Crash, other economics problems contributed to lead the country to the Great Depression: under-consumption, over-production in industry, falling incomes of farmers, failing banks and problems in Europe.
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What did the Great Depressione mean fo American people?
Farmers lost their land
Industry fired their workers
Unemployment, poverty and homelessness increased
The Republican administration could not cope with the crisis
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The final task: Images from the Great Depression
The Roosevelt’s administration built a remarkable collection of more than 80,000 photographs of America during the Depression because the Federal agencies hired great photographers. Throughout the years, each new generation has been exposed to the photographs of this collection. That is in part due to the quality of the work, but it is also because the entire collection is available to publishers’ copyright free.
Visit these websites in order to choose the pictures you need for your assignment explained below.
The Great Depression writing activity
Choose three images about the Great Depression, that can symbolize the features of that period. Then, write a text (not less than 200 words), describing each image and explaining the reasons of your choice regarding the significance of each picture in the historical context.