How did the great depression affect average americans

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Assignment:

Answer the following questions in a Word Document. When you are finished, submit it below.

This quiz consists of 7 written response questions about your assigned viewing/reading.

Answer each question carefully and be thorough in your responses.

Please be mindful of spelling and grammar.

To answer the first 3 questions, use your notes from the "1929-1936: Stormy Weather" episode of The Century documentary series...

How did the Great Depression affect average Americans?
What was the Dust Bowl? How did it exacerbate the Great Depression?
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt use the radio to help restore American confidence in their government and the economy?

To answer the next 2 questions read: Source 23.5 (pages 201-203) "Visual Documents: Dorothea Lange, Photographs of Migratory Workers in

California (1936-1939)" in your textbook (Reading American Horizons)

Why did Farm Security Administration photographers memorialize the poorest of the poor? (worth 2 points)
Who was the intended audience for these photographs?

To answer the last 2 questions read "Crash" (pages 424-428) in Eyewitness to America

What is the historical significance of this document and how does it fit with what we are studying? (worth 2 points)
What surprised you most?

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