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The Human Impact of
the Great Depression
How did ordinary Americans endure the hardships
of the Great Depression?
K e y
C o n t e n t
T e r m s
As you complete the Reading Notes, use these
Key Content Terms in your answers:
soup kitchen
The Grapes of Wrath
breadline
Okies
black blizzard
Great Flood of 1936
Dust Bowl
P R E V I E W
Examine the projected photograph as you listen to
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” This song was
written in the early 1930s. Then answer these questions
in your notebook:
1. Is the song’s tempo fast or slow? How does the tempo
make you feel?
2. What did the singer do before the Great Depression?
What is he doing now?
3. In what ways does the photograph reflect what you
hear and feel when listening to the song?
4. Thinking about the song and the photograph, in what
ways do you think people might have endured the
hardships of the Depression?
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
They used to tell me
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow
Or guns to bear
I was always there
Right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead.
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it’s done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower
Now it’s done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits
Gee we looked swell
Full of that yankee doodly dum.
Half a million boots went slogging through hell
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say don’t you remember?
They called me Al.
It was Al all the time.
Why don’t you remember?
I’m your pal.
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?
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Step 1 Prepare a “scrapbook” for your tour of the
country during the Great Depression:
• Draw a horizontal line across the center of two pages
in your notebook. Do the same on the next two pages.
• Tape one of the eight photographs from Notebook
Handout 32 along the left edge of each space.
Step 2 Visit the eight stations on the tour. Examine
the photograph and the primary source at each station.
Read the subsection(s) of Chapter 32 identified on the
placard, and record notes in the space with the matching
photograph. Include the following in your notes for
each station:
• three or more important and interesting facts from
the reading
• a title above the photograph that identifies the state
you are visiting
• a thought bubble for the person in the photograph
that describes the hardships he or she faced during
the Depression
• a quotation from the primary source at the station
that describes at least one way people endured the
hardships of the Depression
• additional creative touches to make your scrapbook
realistic, such as a sketch of an item you picked up
during your visit to that state
State name here
Facts from the reading here
The hardships I
endured were . . .
Quotation from primary source here
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