Card Sort: Impact of the Great Depression on the USA

This great little resource has never failed to help my students understand the social, economic and political effects of the Great Depression on the USA, 1929 - 1932. It makes a great little starter or mini plenary to a lesson on this topic. I’ve provided it in word so you can easily adapt it to suit the needs of your students.

Aims and Objectives

Theme: Why did FDR defeat HH in the Presidential Election in 1932?
Know: What effects did the Great Depression have on the USA?
Understand: what were the social, economic and political effects of the depression?
Evaluate: Why did President Hoover become increasingly unpopular?

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Identify and describe: What were the effects of the Great Depression?
Explain: Which effects were economic, social or political?
Analyse: Link the effects of the Great Depression together to help explain why HH became more unpopular with the American people?

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Roy