Lectures

1920s in the Pacific Northwest

Types of Inflation

The Stock Market

Dealing with the Great Depression

Assignments

Due Friday 4/10 - 4 questions for Modern Times - 1936
1. What was life like for the poor, the urban unemployed?
2. How did the new factory life seem to the workers? What was their experience like at work?
3. How were the police and factory owners portrayed?
4. What is the final message of the film?

Due Wednesday 4/15 - 3 questions about strikes and unions.
1. If you lived in the 1910s, before significant workplace regulation, over what issues would you be willing to unionize or strike? Explain.
2. For what issues should modern unions fight?
3. Would you join a union today? Would you strike? Explain.

Due Friday 4/17 - Questions for the Seattle General Strike begins on February 6, 1919.

Due Wednesday 4/23 - Inflation Worksheet

Due Thursday 4/24 - Spanish Deflation reading questions.

Due Thursday 4/24 - Worksheet on the Depression in King County.

Due Wednesday 4/29 - Open-note, closed-reading quiz on Federal Theatre Project

Due Friday 5/1 - WWI and the Great Depression Unit Test

Readings

Modern Times - 1936

Seattle General Strike begins on February 6, 1919.

Union Record publishes Anna Louise Strong's Seattle General Strike editorial on February 4, 1919.

the Depression in King County

Federal Theatre Project

Grand Coulee Dam

Unit Links (Not Required)

Seattle General Strike Project