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Time Journey Stop # 1: The Great Depression
As you move through this page, take time to listen to Julia, your guide on this part of your journey; watch the videos; review the newspaper articles; listen to stories from various people who lived and/or experienced these events; and complete each listed task.
Now that we have a idea of what caused the Great Depression to begin, let's take a deeper look at how this time period affected Amercia.
Click on the newspaper clippings above (the front page of the November 7, 1929 issue of the Mt. Pleasant Daily Times) and to the left (the front page of the Daily News: New York's Picture Newspaper). Using the tools provided by each paper's site, determine which two articles would be of most interested to those of us studying the Great Depression? Why would these articles be important for us to read?
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After taking office, President Fanklin D. Roosevelt addressed the issue of the banks. Click here for more information on what steps he took.
Stories from the Great Depression |
Stanley Blackburn shares the story of his grandfather and grandmother's experiences during the Great Depression.
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