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Standard 5.2.P

5.2.P Summarize how the role of the federal government expanded during the period.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Great Depression | South Carolina's Greatest Generation

Episode 1

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

This segment documents the era of the Great Depression. It was a decade of misery that started with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Across the nation in the 1930s, 15 million were unemployed. Thirty...

WPA Workers Make Improvements to Charleston Navy Yard | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 13

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Grades: 5 8

The WPA undertook large, as well as small, construction projects, and the character of some of their projects began to change in 1939 and 1940, as the nation turned its attention to the war that had...

WPA Workers Prepare Hot Meals for Children | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 11

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Grades: 5 8

School children in Greenville eat hot lunches prepared by WPA workers. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Children Getting Their Teeth Checked, WPA Healthcare | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 9

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Grades: 5 8

An important component of the work of the WPA in South Carolina was providing health care for children throughout the state. Here, children in a classroom have their teeth checked. 1930s. Courtesy of...

Historical Records Survey, a Lasting WPA Contribution | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 8

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Grades: 5

Writers, as well as laborers, were out of work during the Depression, and the WPA tried to put both men and women into jobs suitable to their skills. One of the lasting contributions of the WPA in...

WPA Workers Cut Wood for Needy Families | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

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Grades: 5 8

In Columbia, WPA workers cut wood for distribution to the needy by the Salvation Army. The project flourished under the WPA and its city of Columbia and Salvation Army sponsorship from 1935 to 1942...

Civilian Conservation Corps | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

One of the most popular of all the New Deal efforts to provide relief during the depression was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was designed to take young men who did not have...