---
title: "SSUSH17: Great Depression Causes and Effects (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSUSH17
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSUSH17
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSUSH17: Great Depression Causes and Effects

Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSUSH17.a**: Describe the causes, including overproduction, underconsumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
- **SSUSH17.b**: Explain factors (include over-farming and climate) that led to the Dust Bowl and the resulting movement and migration west.
- **SSUSH17.c**: Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as Hoovervilles.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- US History (EOC). Establishment as a World Power. Establishment as a World Power (about 24% of the test; 11 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.