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HSS-11.6.3 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-11.6.3
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.

Standard:
Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.

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