How it works
Great Depression in bubble letters, stacked on one sideways sheet for the cover of a history project. It opens in Fredoka, which keeps a white ring in four of the seven closed letters, the most of the four fonts here.
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From the crash to the Dust Bowl
After your first print, open 1930s words in bubble letters. The 1930s, Timeline, Causes and Effects head a board. The Roaring / Twenties ended in the Stock Market / Crash on Wall Street; Black / Tuesday was October 29, 1929. Bank / Runs, Unemployment, Breadline and Soup / Kitchen label the years that followed. On the Great / Plains the Dust Bowl brought Dust / Storms; Black / Sunday was April 14, 1935.
The New Deal
New Deal heads the government's answer. Relief, Recovery and Reform are its three R's, the Alphabet / Agencies its programs known by their initials, and Fireside / Chats the president's evening radio talks. Primary / Sources labels the photographs and letters.
- With The typed in front, The Great / Depression prints as tall as Great / Depression: Depression, the widest line, sets the size.
- Relief, Recovery and Reform print at three heights as single sheets. Typed on three lines of one sheet they share one size.
Questions and answers
How do you draw Great Depression in bubble letters?
Pencil Great on one line and Depression under it, with wide gaps. Fatten each stroke into a rounded outline, keep a ring in the a, D, p and o, dot the i, erase the pencil and color.
Is Great Depression capitalized?
Yes, with a capital G and a capital D, as the name of one period of history. The Federal Reserve's history site and the FDR Presidential Library both write it that way.
When was the Great Depression?
It began in 1929 and lasted more than a decade, ending during World War II. The Federal Reserve's history site dates it 1929 to 1941 and ranks it as the country's longest and deepest slump.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Years of fierce 1930s dust storms that damaged farms and land on the prairies of the United States and Canada. A news editor coined the name after the Black Sunday storm; it first meant the region and now usually means the event.