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Chapter 30 Activity: Causes of the Great Depression
Overproduction and underconsumption were key causes of the Great Depression. Complete the table below as
you read section 30.3.
KEY CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
What caused this economic trend?
What were the effects of this economic trend?
Overproduction
Underconsumption
30.4: Name and describe two actions the federal government took that made the Great Depression worse…
1.
2.
30.5: In the diagram below write a definition of speculative bubble. Then list at least four examples of
speculative bubbles from the past and at least one way a speculative bubble might affect your life today.
Speculative bubbleExamples from the past
Connection to you today
Processing: The parts of a kinetic sculpture are constantly moving. For example, a ball might hit a lever that sets off a
pulley. The pulley might, in turn, pull a bucket that dumps water on a paddle wheel. The paddle wheel creates another
movement. Different actions can take place independently of one another as well. But all the actions together have a
combined result. Draw and label a simple kinetic sculpture commemorating the causes of the Great Depression. At least
one part on your sculpture must represent each Key Content Term. These terms may appear on your machine in any
order. However, the more clearly you can show how one action led to another, the more elegant your machine will be.
Chapter 31 Activity
Read Section 31.2. Then decide which political ideology— conservative, liberal, or radical—is best represented
by each illustration. Below each illustration, write the name of that ideology. Then write a sentence or two
summarizing what supporters of that ideology believe about how to address economic issues. Leave the rest of
the page blank for the activity that will follow.
Ideology
Summary
As you read Sections 31.3 and 31.4, list actions taken by Hoover and Roosevelt to address the nation’s
economic problems. Briefly describe how each action was meant to help the nation economically. Then label
each action with a C if you think it was a more conservative action or an L if you think it was a more liberal
action.
Hoover’s Actions
Roosevelt’s Actions
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Date ________________ Period ____
Processing the Great Depression
You have learned that the Great Depression severely limited economic opportunities for most Americans. Both
President Hoover and, later, President Roosevelt tried to promote economic opportunities by taking a variety of
actions based on their own political ideologies.
Read the following quotations by these two presidents.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in
the community. That has been the American way.
—Herbert Hoover
This nation asks for action, and action now.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the
determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Using these quotations and information from your reading, write two or three paragraphs in which you evaluate
the extent to which each president succeeded in advancing economic opportunities for all Americans.
Each of your paragraphs should have
• a solid topic sentence that summarizes your position.
• one or two pieces of evidence that support the topic sentence.
• one or two sentences that explain how your evidence supports your topic sentence.