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Class Flow: Picture Review of the 1930's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to introduce or review the major aspects of the 1930's, including the Stock Market Crash, Hoover's presidency, the Bonus Army, the Dust Bowl, FDR and his New Deal Programs.
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Siteseen: American Historama: New Deal
Article on FDR's New Deal provides detailed facts and a summary of a series of relief programs during the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Fireside Chats
Provides detailed facts and interesting information about FDR's Fireside Chats, radio broadcasts made to reassure the nation and convey important information during the Great Depression and WW2.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Long Bull Market
The Long Bull Market of the 1920s saw share prices on the stock market soar and its collapse contributed to the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
In June 1933 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created to restore confidence in the banks following the banking crisis during the Great Depression.
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Bonnie & Clyde's Hideout: The Poems of Bonnie Parker
Written one week before their capture, Bonnie Parker penned "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde," a poem she gave to her mother for safe keeping. Read many of her poems here, including the first draft of "Suicidal Sal."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Social Realism
This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Strikes and Unions
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...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Zion National Park
What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.
American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: Hoover's Address Regarding Unemployment
This site from the University of Massachusetts, Boston provides the text of Herbert Hoover's radio address to the US on October 18, 1931, regarding the unemployment situation.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Economic Growth and Stability
Overview of the early 20th Century, post-depression era period of economic growth and stability brought about by Keynesian economics and the New Deal.
Digital History
Digital History: Rise and Crash [Pdf]
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,...
Digital History
Digital History: Roosevelt's Critics
This article lays out criticism of President Roosevelt and his handling of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Read about three men who developed a great following by insisting that the New Deal did not go far enough and not enough...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The New Deal
Describes the First and Second New Deal initiatives enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Herbert Clark Hoover: Foreign Affairs
Offers a comprehensive overview of Herbert Hoover's foreign policy during his presidency which centered on the Great Depression. Content includes a focus on the economy, disarmament, the "Good Neighbor" policy, and Japanese Aggression...
Digital History
Digital History: Prosperity: Fact or Myth [Pdf]
Find the reasons for the booming economy in the United States in the 1920s. Can the seeds for the Great Depression be seen in the fruit of the economy? [pdf]
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