Use the information located on the page "Depression and World War II" to complete the following questions.

I. Find the song "White House Blues" in the section on the Great Depression

1. Who was blamed for the Depression?

2. How did the songwriter describe his clothing?

3. Which songwriter wrote the most songs for this period?

II. Look on the pages marked "Black Thursday: An Introduction"

4. From which newspaper were these headlines taken?

5. On what date did economists say stocks would "STAY AT HIGH LEVEL FOR YEARS TO COME"?

6. On October 22, what does economist Fisher state about the value of stocks?

7. Even after the stock market crashes on October 24, what positive headline does the newspaper print?

8. Why do you think the newspaper printed these positive headlines?

9. Which day has the largest paper loss? How much money?

III. Cut and paste the following address into your Internet window:

http://www.geocities.com/betheric_2000/MastersProgram/Humanities544/CausesOfGreatDepression.html

10. Why were companies able to increase their productivity (how fast goods can be produced) during the 1920s?

11. Why is it an economic problem to create products which are only purchased once by the wealthy?

12 & 13. What could companies have done to reduce the effects of the depression? How would each of these solutions have reduced the tragedy of the Great Depression?

14. What happened to the income gap in the 1920s?

15. How did those people without money continue to invest in the stock market?

16. What did the Stock Market Crash of 1929 reveal?

IV. Go to "The Writing Den"

17. What were the many unemployed people doing in Edmonton, Alberta?

18. What were the men forced to do in the flophouse?

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V. Go to "Surviving the Dustbowl"

19. Why do the "Black Blizzards" occur?

20. What happens in September of 1933 to stabilize food prices?

21. What does this event have to do with supply and demand? You might have to ask your parents or an outside source for the definition of "supply and demand"?

22. How much of the country was covered by drought in 1935? Why did this make the Depression even worse?

23. When does the drought eventually end? How? Did it end based on government action?

24. What happened in the Scottsboro Boys Case?

25. What was the name given to Roosevelt's proposals to bring America out of the Depression?