The Depression Era – 1930’s

Scavenger Hunt

Name: ______________________________________

 

Class Period: ____________________

 

Directions:  Using the web site listed for each question, find the answers for the following questions.  Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

 

www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents

 

1.    Who were the presidents during this time (1930’s)?

 

www.allaboutjazz.com/timeline.htm

 

2.    What type of music became popular?

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/index.htm

 

3.    What other inventions occurred in the 1930’s?

 

http://sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/bungradi.html

 

4.    What type of house was popular during the 1930’s?

 

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/maps/index.html

 

5.    How many teenagers “rode the rails” as hobos during the Depression?

 

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/obstacles.html

6.    What percentage of the African American population was unemployed?