Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services, the overproduction of goods, and the stock market crash each had an impact on Alabama in the 1920's.
- The overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs impacted Alabama during the Great Depression.
- Supply and demand had an impact on the economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Explain the impact the 1920s had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama including increase in availability of electricity, employment opportunities, wages, products, consumption of goods and services; overproduction of goods; stock market crash.
- Explain the impact the Great Depression had on different socioeconomic groups in Alabama including overcropping of land, unemployment, poverty, establishment of new federal programs.
- Interpret data linked to supply and demand and understand how this impacted economies of Alabama and the United States during the 1920s and the Great Depression. Analyze the human impact of New Deal programs on the people of Alabama.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Events and consumer habits in the 1920's impacted the lives of Alabamians and how they lived during the Great Depression.
Vocabulary
- analyze
- supply and demand
- overproduction
- overcropping
- TVA
- unemployment
- poverty
- wages
- consumption
- stock market
- Great Depression
- migrant
- foreclosure
- soup kitchen
- relief
- discrimination
- segregation
- consumer goods
