After studying the Great Depression and its effects, let's think about one of our Learning Focus & Essential Questions:
"How do you see what we are studying now as a consequence of prior events and is there a relevance to today."
Still today, people are fearful of an economic depression. In the 1970s the Oil Embargo caused economic fears. In 1987 the U.S. Stock Market plunged. In 2007 the "housing bubble" bursts and the Great Recession began. Assignment - What aspects of the Great Depression would worry you the most in today's society if a similar depression would occur?