1. Causes of the Stock Market Crash
- Buying on credit, buying in margin
- Federal reserve raised intrest rates, so people stopped buying items and stocks, then started selling stocks
- spectulators buy stock then a year later they would sell....stock watering- over value of stock prices
- overproduction of goods
- uneven distribution of wealth- rich got richer and the poor got poorer, people that wernt rich had massive debt so they quit buying things
- too much borrowing from banks poeple were in debts
- lack of government regulation- pooling-people would get together and buy a stock and they would get millions of dollars for that stock
2. Causes of the Great Depression
- Banks failed
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff-
- Unempolyment rate
- stock market crash
- overprodutcion of goods
- Underconsumption of goods by consumers
- Agricultural slump due to overproduction
- High protective tariff policies of the 1920s
- Taxes benefiting the rich- rich got richer and poor got poorer
Plus one of these topics:
1. 1928 Election(466)
2. Stock Market in the 1920's(466-468)
3. Story of the stock market crash-not the causes(467-469)
4. Banks and business' collapse(469)
5. Effect stock market crash had on other countries(469-471)
6. Depression in the cities(472-473)
7. Depression in the rural areas(473)
8. Dust Bowl(474)
9. Men in the Streets(475)
10. Women struggle to survive(475-476)
11. Children suffer hardships(476)
12. Social and psychological effects(477)
13. Hoover's background
14. Hoover's philosophy/Cautious steps(479)
15. Boulder Dam(480)
16. Democrats win 1930 Congressional elections(480)
17. Hoover takes action(481)
18. Bonus Army(482-483)
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