The Great Depression /
Making Meaning : Grade 5 Unit 7 Alternate title
by Melissa McDaniel.
- 64 pages : illustrations (some color) . color map ; 24 cm.
- Center for the Collaborative Classroom : Making Meaning ; Grade 5 Unit 7 Alternate title .
- Cornerstones of freedom. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.
Setting the scene : The roaring twenties -- the crash of 1929 -- Struggling to get by -- From bad to worse -- The New Deal -- Map of the events : what happened where-- The story continues : the end of the depression.
Presents an introduction to the Great Depression of the 1930s discussing the economic boom of the 1920s to the depressions conclusion during World War II, how Americans survived after losing their jobs and what the United States government did to combat the effects of the depression.
Depressions--United States--1929--Juvenile literature. New Deal, 1933-1939--Juvenile literature. Depressions--United States.--1929 New Deal, 1933-1939. Great Depression, 1929-1939.
United States--History--1933-1945--Juvenile literature. United States--History--1919-1933--Juvenile literature. United States--History--1933-1945. United States--History--1919-1933.