The Great Depression was a time of economic distress for the American people. One thing that helped people to cope with the depression was the New Deal. During the New Deal FDR and Congress created many programs to help pull the US out of the Depression. For the following assignments, you will be asked to create trading cards for certain Great Depression events and New Deal programs, so that you have a tool to review and study from. This project will be worth 50 summative points. You will need to meet the requirements for each card. It is due on January 16th.
Here are the requirements: 10 Cards Total
Front:
- The Name of the event/program
- Date of Event/Program
- Date of end if applicable
- Picture representation
Back:
- What did it do?
- Why is it significant?
- Picture
THE FRONT AND BACK MUST BE SEPARATE AND CLEAR
Here are the Events/Programs to choose from, but you must do the bolded terms:
- AAA
- TVA
- WPA
- CCC
- PWA
- Election of FDR
- FHA
- NRA
- FDIC
- Fireside Chats
- Deficit Spending
- Social Security Act
- Wagner Act