Given background information, students will identify the social and economic impact of World War II on the American home front, such as the Great Depression, rationing, and increased opportunity for women and minority employment.

Explains the programs instituted by FDR between 1933 and 1938 to curb the effects of the Great Depression. Lists and briefly defines such programs as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, WPA, National Housing Act, etc.

The Public Works Administration was responsible for employing thousands during the Great Depression in construction work. Read about some of the projects built in the Southeast, primarily in Tennessee.

Read about the response of Herbert Hoover to the suffering of those who were hurting during the Great Depression. From the PBS series, Freedom: A History of US, based on the books by Joy Hakim.

Read about the growth of labor unions during the 1930s as the Great Depression continued, due to the passage of the Wagner Act. Find out about the strikes and the conflict between labor and management, as well as conflict within the...

Deflationary conditions in the United States have not returned since the Great Depression. Instead, U.S. policymakers have frequently found it necessary to battle inflation over the past sixty years. While not a problem in America,...

The National Archives and Records Administration, provides this article with historic photographs of people and places in the 1930s.

During the Great Depression in Canada, the country and its people saw social unrest increase and the emergence of new political parties take place.

An excellent discussion of Miami's colorful history from pre-European days up to modern times. Covers topics such as the Seminole Wars, the birth of Miami, the Everglades drainage project, Colored Town, the land boom, the Great...

Accounts of African American migrations from the rural South to Southern cities. This resource provides not just accounts of the Great Migration focusing on the flight from the South to the North, but also the migration within the South...

Several photographs from the Great Depression depicting people standing in breadlines and at soup kitchens.

Quick introduction to one of the more famous American criminals of the Great Depression. Vivid descriptions of his meteoric rise to fame paint the picture of a man who lived life dangerously.

Read a brief acount of how the Great Depression affected Seattle, especially where the so-called Hoovervilles were located.

Provides detailed facts and a summary of FDR's first hundred days (March 9 to June 16, 1933) when 15 major acts were passed in an attempt to relieve the devastating effects of the Great Depression.

Thorough discussion of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s with accompanying map, photos, and timeline that describe it in detail.

Franklin D. Roosevelt brought in many different thinkers to help find ideas to fix the Great Depression. Read about their ideas and the ways they instituted their ways of thinking.

Read about the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a union that represented steel workers, among many other factoy workers. Find out about their tactics used in strikes during the Great Depression.

Read a brief description of the march on Washington, D.C., in 1932 by veterans of World War I. Find out which military leaders helped to rout the men from their Bonus Army camps,

The farm crisis began years before the stock market crash and was made worse by the Great Depression. Read about the legislation that was passed to stabilize commodity prices and help farmers stay on their farms.

A quick comprehension check over the New Deal.

Read how anger about the increasing hardships affecting people in the Great Depression resulted in a march on Washington, D.C., by veterans of World War I. See what the demands were of the so-called Bonus Army, and how the demands were met.

Discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's First and Second New Deals and the different programs that got people back to work and put food on their tables. Looks at the successes and failures of these programs and the criticisms leveled at...

Read about the plight of American farmers in the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt instituted several programs to help the rural population, the most important of which was the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Find out whom this act...

Photographs from the 1930s of both black and white sharecroppers, with some accompanying explanation.