Causes of the stock market crash:
1. Margin Buying
2. Consumer desires went down as they purchased what they wanted
3. Contributing factors
4. When stocks went down, people quit buying and started selling
Sources:
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/stock.htm
http://www.ehow.com/about_7281808_causes-effects-stock-market-crashes.html
Causes of The Great Depression:
- Stock market crash
- Bank failures
- Ruducing purchases across the board
- Unemployment
Sources:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm
The Dust Bowl
The dust bowl, the "Dirty Thirties", was a time of terrible dust storms. It was named after Black Sunday, 4/14/35. Many dut storms had been happening... leading up to that day. In 1932 14 dust storms were recored in the plains, in 1933 there were 38. Millions of acres of farmland was now usless and many families had to migrat to other states, mostly California.
Children had to wear sand masks to school and women covered the windows with wet sheets to attempt to pretect the house. The dust bowl lasted about 8 years. This was a period of terrible dust storms causing damage to American and Canadian land. It was mostly caused by the crop conditions from the drought and high winds. There was no natural anchors to keep the soil in place so it dried, and turned into dust and blew away into large black clouds.
Sources:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
Comments
You needed to explain each of the causes instead of just listing them. Also be sure to include personal thoughts.