5th & 6th Social Studies
Lessons for Week of May 4th 2020
The Great Depression (1929-1933) & Primary and Secondary Sources
*The stock market lost almost 90% of its value between 1929 and 1933.
*In 1929, unemployment was around 3%. In 1933, it was 25%, with 1 out of every 4 people out of work.
*The average family income dropped by 40% during the Great Depression.
*More than $1 billion in bank deposits were lost due to bank closings.
*The New Deal created around 100 new government offices and 40 new agencies.
*The worst years of the Great Depression were 1932 and 1933.
*Around 300,000 companies went out of business.
*Hundreds of thousands of families could not pay their mortgages and were evicted from their homes.
*Millions of people migrated away from the Dust Bowl region in the Midwest. Around 200,000 migrants moved to California.
*President Roosevelt pushed 15 major laws through in his "First Hundred Days" of office.
6th Grade - Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, statistical data, pieces of creative writing, audio and video recordings, speeches, and art objects. Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and Internet communications via email, blogs, and newsgroups are also primary sources.
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process primary sources. Secondary source materials can be articles in newspapers or popular magazines, book or movie reviews, or articles found in scholarly journals that discuss or evaluate someone else's original research.
source: https://libguides.ithaca.edu/
The Great Depression (1929-1933)
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
Herbert Hoover is known for being the president during the stock market crash of 1929 which triggered the start of the Great Depression.Read More @
https://www.ducksters.com/biography/uspresidents/herberthoover.php