Content Specification - SS.11.7.c.1:
Students will examine the reasons for economic prosperity during the 1920s.

Content Specification - SS.11.7.c.2:
Students will examine the underlying weaknesses of the economy that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

Content Specification - SS.11.7.c.3:
Students will compare and contrast the responses of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt to the Great Depression.

Content Specification - SS.11.7.c.4:
Students will examine the human and environmental causes of the Dust Bowl and its effects.

Content Specification - SS.11.7.c.5:
Students will evaluate President Roosevelt’s leadership during the Depression including key legislative initiatives of the New Deal, expansion of federal government power, and the constitutional challenge represented by his Court packing effort.