The 22-book American Milestone series is featured as "Retailers Recommended Fabulous Products" in the August 2012 edition of Educational Dealer magazine. For nearly ten years, the wealth and prosperity of the "roaring '20s" had electrified America. The Stock Market was making people richer by the day. But in three fateful days in October 1929, all of that wealth vanished, and prosperity turned to poverty. The Great Depression had begun, and with it came record levels of unemployment, job loss, and despair.
Then, just when all hope seemed lost, a presidential candidate promised "a new deal for the American people." That man was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and this is the story of the Great Depression and how the New Deal saved the United States.
In this book, kids will wander the streets of the largest cities and smallest towns with adults looking for any way to eke out a living. They'll ride creaky old wagons in the mass exodus out of the Dust Bowl that was once the Great Plains, and they'll wade through the "alphabet soup" of New Deal programs that President Roosevelt created - just in the nick of time! This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.
A partial list of the Table of Contents include:
A Timeline of Events
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime": The Great Depression & The New Deal Herbert Hoover
The Great Stock Market Crash
Banks Fail
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security
Federal Communications Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Additional Resources
Glossary
And More
This fun-fill activity book includes:
Create the Front Page of a Newspaper
Make Indian Pudding
Do the Math
Maze
Chronological Order
Matching
Unscramble Words
True or False
And Much More!