Objectives

Students will:

1. Discuss how the stock market works and why it crashed in 1929.
2. Explain how the Great Depression plunged many Americans into poverty.
3. Outline the government’s reactions to the Great Depression.
4. Identify programs created by Roosevelt during his first 100 days as president.
5. Describe how the Depression affected different groups of people.
6. Analyze the impact of the New Deal and the Second New Deal.
7. Recognize the pay scale differences between men and women during this time period.