Introduction
Get ready to begin Ms. McMillen's Great Depression Scavenger Hunt! Follow the website links listed under the process tab to find the answers to the questions listed on your worksheet.
Process
1. 1929: Celebrating on the Brink
a. How many shares of stock were sold on October 29th, "Black Thursday"?
b. What was Trenton celebrating on October 29th and how did they celebrate it?
2. Life During the Great Depression
a. What was unemployment in 1930? and at the end of the Great Depression?
b. How many children between the ages of 10-18 worked in factories, canneries, mines and on farms for low wages during the Great Depression?
c. What was the "eviction game"?
d. Name two of the lessons learned during the Great Depression.
a. Using the Timeline how many dust storms were there in 1932? In 1933?
b. Using the Timeline what happened to help stabilize the nation in March 1933?
c. Using the Timeline how many states were affected severely by the drought in May 1934?
a. Looking at the Wages table, how much per week did a cook make then? Now?
b. Looking at the Wages table, how much per week did a doctor make? Now?
c. How many weeks would a cook then need to work to buy a woman’s winter coat?
a. How high did the unemployment rate get during the Great Depression?
b. When and why did the Great Depression end?
c. What did people do for fun during the Great Depression?
a. What did one of Gene’s cousins tell him that made him leave home?
b. What was the name of the boy that Gene traveled with and considered to be much like a brother?
c. What happened to Jim?
7. Hobo Signs
a. Draw the symbol that means “Can sleep in barn”?
b. Draw the symbol that means “Police officer lives here”?
a. Who was Dorothea Lange?
b. Who did she work for?
c. Who or what did she take pictures of?
a. What was the name of the book that John Steinbeck wrote during the Great Depression?
b. What was the book about?