SS10.6.5

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.5

Explain causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the United States.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • What caused the Great Depression and the effect it had on the people of the United States.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Examine cause and effect to see relationships between people, places, ideas, and events.
  • Use map skills to locate places of historical significance.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were many causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the U.S.

Vocabulary

  • depression
  • economic failure
  • Hoovervilles
  • migration
  • Dust Bowl
  • New Deal
  • Tennessee Valley Authority
  • river systems

COS Examples

Examples: economic failure, loss of farms, rising unemployment, building of Hoovervilles

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