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Trade in Colonial America / NAFTA
Timing is Everything
Developing a Financial Investment Portfolio
Widgets: Producing More, Using Less
How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
Mystery Workers
Demand Shifters
Government Spending
Those Golden Jeans
The Great Depression Mystery
Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives

WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO? The Great Depression Mystery
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Part 2

Clue Sheet #2 - (PDF 10k - 3 pages)

Complete Clue Sheet #2 using the web sites and questions listed on that sheet, so that you can suggest how these factors contributed to the Great Depression. The sites deal with labor and employment, poverty and income, and the economy and government. When you have finished, share your answers and then as a class answer the following questions:

  • How are the overall employment trends related to income?
  • Why was farm income depressed throughout the 1920s?
  • What caused the trends in government spending during this time?

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