Great Depression and New Deal (SS5H3)

Atlanta Union Mission, Southline Press, Inc. Photographs, Atlanta History Center

SS5H3 Explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans. 

1. Discuss the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, the Dust Bowl, and soup kitchens. 

2. Analyze the main features of the New Deal; include the significance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

3. Discuss important cultural elements of the 1930s; include Duke Ellington, Margaret Mitchell, and Jesse Owens.

Suggested Collections

• Atlanta Housing Authority Photographs, 1940-1942 (Atlanta History Center)

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Belle Isle Family Photographs, circa 1900-1940 (Atlanta History Center)

• Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated (Atlanta History Center)

• Columbus Museum Collections (Columbus Museum (Columbus, Ga.))

• Gay Bolling Shepperson Photograph Collection, 1933-1945 (bulk 1935-1937) (Atlanta History Center)

• Georgia's Political Heritage Program (University of West Georgia. Special Collections)

• Joe McTyre Photograph Collection, 1889-1985, undated (Atlanta History Center)

• Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection (Atlanta History Center)

• Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976 (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Popular Music Collections (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012 (Tubman African-American Museum)

• Selections from the Records of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1924-1974 (Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus)

• The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery (Hall County Library System (Ga.))

• Uprising of '34 Collection (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Vanishing Georgia (Georgia Archives)

• Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews (Atlanta History Center)

• Voices of Labor Oral History Project (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Georgia (Hargrett Library)

• Works Progress Administration of Georgia Atlanta Maps (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

• New Deal, 1933-1939

• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945

• Social Conditions, 1929-1945

• Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 

• United States. Works Progress Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Duke Ellington

• Margaret Mitchell

• Gone With the Wind

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• Stock Market Crash, 1929

• Depressions--1929

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

• Soup kitchens 

• Food relief

• New Deal, 1933-1939

• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945

• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945

• United States--History--1933-1945

• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945

• United States--Social conditions--1929-1945

• Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 

• United States. Works Progress Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Duke Ellington

• Margaret Mitchell

• Jesse Owens

• Gone With the Wind

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Duke Ellington

• Dust Bowl

• FDR's Presidency in the Georgia Press

• Food Relief

• The Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• Jesse Owens

• The New Deal in the Georgia Press

• Soup kitchens

• The Tennessee Valley Authority

• Works Progress Administration

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Dust Bowl

• Topics in Chronicling America - Dust Bowl

• The Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• New Deal Policy

• Works Progress Administration

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

• Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamp Programs

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers

• The New Deal

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Roosevelt's Tree Army: The Civilian Conservation Corps

• Social Realism

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

NGE Articles

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Flint River Farms Resettlement Community

• The Great Depression

• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

• The New Deal

• Public Authorities and Public Corporations

• Rural Electrification Act

• Social Security Act

• Swing Music: Overview

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

• Duke Ellington Plates

• Dust Bowl: Grace Lyles on Dust Storms

• Farmers Fear Bankruptcy During the Great Depression | The People in the Pictures

• The Great Depression | Georgia Stories

• The Great Depression and the Civilian Conservation Corps | Wild Nevada

• The Great Depression, the Family Farm and the New Deal | The People in the Pictures

• Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympic Games

• Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota | Introduction

• Life in the Dust Bowl

• Life on a Rural Midwest Family Farm during the Great Depression | The People in the Pictures

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933) and Resource Materials

• Tomverlin: Dustbowl

• Using Prior Knowledge from Personal Experiences - Understanding Duke Ellington

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Georgia from WWI through the Great Depression

• Georgia in the 1930s

Posters and Postcards

• SS5H3 poster

• SS5H3 postcard