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Geography
February 19 and 22, 2016
Great
Depression
Causes
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Great Depression Causes
• Objective:
o Examine prevailing causes and effects and continue analysis of the
stock-crash.
• Essential Question:
Warm-up:
CNN Student
News
 Write a ONE SENTENCE summary on
TWO news stories from CNN Student
News.
 After the video you will have 5 minutes
to write your 2 summaries.
 Summary: “A brief statement or account
of the main points of something.
 Discussion to follow: What do you
think?
Warm-Up:
Copy the Timeline on pages 738-739 (both
world and American events) and answer the
following questions:
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3.
What single event led to the Great
Depression?
What famous building was completed at
the height of the Depression?
What were conditions like in the Soviet
Union in 1932?
1. Quickwrite:
Pretend that you are bank customer who wants to withdraw
money (savings) from your bank and you are told by the
bank-teller that there is NO money.
What might be the cause of such a situation?
What options would you have as a customer?
2. Activating Prior Knowledge:
Have you ever heard of conditions during the Great
Depression? What are your impressions of this time period?
1. The Stock Market Crash of 1929:
oDow Jones Industrial Average climbed to
191, 122, and finally 381.
oBlack Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929 – Stock
prices fell slowly. Investors began to sell
& stock prices fell.
oBlack Tuesday, October 29, 1929 – 16.4
mill. Shares sold.
oStock Market lost all gains of entire year.
• 2. Bank Failures
oOccurs when a bank is unable to meet its
obligations to its depositors
oBank deposits were uninsured and as
banks failed people simply lost their
savings.
oSurviving banks unwilling to create new
loans.
• 3. Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board:
oAfter the stock market crash, individuals
from all classes stopped buying items.
oLed to reduction in the number of items
made and thus a reduction in workforce.
oPeople lost their jobs and unable to keep
up with paying for items bought with
installment plans.
• 4. American Economic Policy with Europe:
oBusinesses gradually began to
fail. Govt. passed the SmootHawley Tariff in 1930 to protect
American companies.
oCharged high tax for imports
leading to less trade between
America and foreign countries.
• 5. Drought Conditions:
oMassive drought in the Mississippi Valley
in 1930; around the same time.
oMany could not pay their taxes or other
debts and had to sell their farms for no
profit to themselves.
oThe area of the drought nicknamed: “The
Dust Bowl.”
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depend on the listed physical features and
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vegetation, or climate in Japan
and Korea would affect the
daily lives of people living there.
•Closure: (In Notebook)
•Write a headline for a
newspaper about today’s
lesson.
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