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The Great Depression: What Would it be like today? Lesson PlanThe Great Depression: What Would it be like today? Lesson Plan
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The Great Depression: What Would it be like today?

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Students calculate the percentage decline in factors affecting the quality of life such as wages and unemployment, from before the Depression to the beginning of the New Deal. Students then calculate what the same percentage decline for these factors woul

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