American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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1. How weaknesses underlying the apparent prosperity of the 1920s led to the Great Depression, and how the stock market crash touched it off.

2. That neither the efforts of local and private relief agencies nor the early volunteerism of Herbert Hoover was able to halt the spiral of rising unemployment and declining production.

3. How the economic pressures of the Depression affected the American people, especially minorities.

4. How the misery of those affected by the Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the presidency.

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