Alabama Social Studies SS24.US2.5

SS24.US2.5 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.US2.5a

  Describe the effects of New Deal programs on Alabama, outlining the problems they sought to address.

• SS24.US2.5b

  Analyze the impact of the Great Depression and the resulting social programs on the American family and minority groups.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how lost jobs, bank failures, and Dust Bowl crop losses changed work, housing, and family life. They describe how neighbors and aid groups helped people get by. They connect New Deal programs to Alabama's needs and compare who benefited.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain why a Dust Bowl family might move and how neighbors could share food or shelter. They can link TVA jobs and electricity to needs in north Alabama. They can explain how AAA crop cuts could leave Black sharecroppers without work while landowners received payments.

03

Common Misconceptions

Some students place the Dust Bowl in Alabama, though its worst damage hit the Great Plains. Others assume New Deal aid reached everyone equally. Early Social Security left out most farm and domestic workers, and AAA crop cuts could displace sharecroppers.

04

How to Assess It

Use this exit ticket: "Why did a Dust Bowl family leave home, and how might neighbors help? How did the TVA aid Alabama, while the AAA could harm a Black sharecropper?"

1. 01

   Give pairs an Alabama tenant family's budget; halve crop income, then have them revise spending and choose food to share with a neighbor.

2. 02

   Ask, "Why might a landowner receive AAA payments while a sharecropper loses work?" Have students cite two details from a one-page AAA summary.

3. 03

   Make cards labeled TVA, CCC, and AAA, plus cards for power, park jobs, and crop prices; teams match each program to its problem.

4. 04

   Print a local food bank's needs list and a 1930s soup kitchen photo; students write two sentences comparing who gets help.

• SS24.US2.4b

  Critique the effectiveness of the New Deal in managing problems of the Great Depression through relief, recovery, and reform programs; expansion of the executiv...

• SS24.5.8

  Analyze how the government-funded New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society.

• SS24.5.7b

  Identify key characteristics of the Dust Bowl and the regions affected by it.