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Qué fue la Gran Depresión? / Janet B. Pascal ; ilustraciones de Dede Putra.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: What was--?Publisher: Miami, FL, USA : Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc, [2016]Description: 107 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631134142
  • 1631134140
Uniform titles:
  • What Was the Great Depression? Spanish
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Describe la vida durante de la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos.Summary: "On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market the system that controls money in America plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called Hoovervilles named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had gone under. Though the U.S. has seen other times of struggle, the Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history. Now it is represented clearly and with 80 illustrations in our What Was? series."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's World Languages Collection 973.91 P278 Spanish Available 33111008425924
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns. The Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history.

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Describe la vida durante de la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos.

"On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market the system that controls money in America plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called Hoovervilles named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had gone under. Though the U.S. has seen other times of struggle, the Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history. Now it is represented clearly and with 80 illustrations in our What Was? series."--Provided by publisher.

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