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Exploring the Great Depression: Longshoremen Strikes and the New Deal

This lesson plan engages students in understanding key events of the Great Depression, focusing on the struggles of longshoremen in 1933 and the New Deal’s impact. Students will participate in a T-chart activity listing what they know and what they learn about the Great Depression. They'll analyze the longshoremen's demands and the violent strikes of July 1934, culminating in a discussion about the lasting effects of the New Deal programs. Further, the lesson will cover the Dust Bowl and FDR's election victory in 1932, linking historical events to modern implications.

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Exploring the Great Depression: Longshoremen Strikes and the New Deal

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  1. Warm-ups Unit 5

  2. What do you know about the Great Depression, list as many things as you can? After the discussion then have the students write what they now know. (T chart) • Know • Know now

  3. Warm up : Longshoreman article: 1. What are longshoremen & what were their demands in 1933? 2. What happened in July 1934? 3. What was the end result?

  4. Answers to Longshoremen Warm-up • Workers at docks and harbors-unloaded cargo. They wanted 6 hour day, fair wages, equalized work opportunities, end of discrimination • “Bloody Thursday”-They held a strike and in 1934 the National Guard was called in to break up strike. They used guns, goon squads, tear gas. Hundreds wounded 2 killed. • End result was that the public supported strikers after Bloody Thursday and after federal government got involved they got what they wanted

  5. Tues/Wed 1/8-9 • Stock Market article. How does the Stock Market work? Explain and describe in at least four sentences.

  6. Thu/Fri 1/10-11 • Dust Bowl map handout & questions

  7. Monday January 14th • Page 489 • In the 1932 election why did FDR win and Hoover lose? What was the 20th amendment, why was it enacted?

  8. Warm up: What programs of the New Deal do we still utilize today and how do they impact our lives?

  9. Thursday/Friday 1/17-18 • What were the arguments for & against the New Deal ( pg 516)

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