March Madness – Great
Depression
Your project involves selecting and evaluating the impact of 8
historic concepts which contributed to the Great Depression and which event,
policy, and the idea which best helped the economy to recover. You will
create a bracket for your event choices and then battle them to answer the question.
Which event was most influential in causing the Great Depression?
Round 1 Round
2 Round
3 Round
4
You will create your bracket on an 8 by 11 sheet of computer paper
by hand. On a separate sheet, you may type or write your responses in
complete sentences as follows:
For
your round 1 words; write a definition and how this contributed to
the Great Depression, or how the policy helped to bring the country to
recovery (18 total). Indicate the 8 causes you will utilize on the
first part of your bracket with an asterisk (*)
For
your round 2 words (4 of them); write specifically why you feel your
winners were more substantial in causing The Great Depression than the
causes you did not move forward. You must give specific ideas to
support your choice.
For
your round 3 words (2 of them); write specifically why you feel your
winners were more substantial than the causes you did not move
forward. You must give specific ideas to support your choice.
For
round 4 you will write a three-paragraph response justifying your
rationale for your winning event and answering the question. Which
event was most influential in causing the Great Depression? In the
third paragraph, you will address which of the four policies was most
effective in solving the depression and justify your answer with specific
ideas and examples.
You
will create at least 4, hand-drawn colored illustrations to
represent some of your chosen events. These will be on your bracket
page. It can be drawn on any of the 8 events you choose.
Event bank
Causes of the Great Depression
Buying
on Margins – The speculative boom of the 1920s
Stock
market crash of 1929
Supply/Demand
Issues – Oversupply and overproduction problems, Low demand for products
Unemployment
Missteps
by the Federal Reserve – monetary policy (interest rates and circulation
of currency) a site to help
Rugged
Individualism (Presidential Response to the growing crisis)
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff Act of 1930
Bank
Panics/runs
Laissez
Faire
The
Gold Standard
Isolationism
Economic
Inequality – Uneven distribution of wealth
Dustbowl
Foreign Direct Investment – (US investment in Europe
following WW1)
Most effective Policy (policy efficacy)
The
New Deal
Fireside
Chats
World
War II
Keynesian
Economics
