Ch. 14 Test Topics:
-- Causes of the Stock Market Crash
1. Stock Prices were over valued,
2. when the stock market began to fall the stock marketers got nervous and sold stocks,
3. people got to many loans and they couldn't pay it off they were so much in debt that they couldn't pay 4. businesses and the businesses couldn't keep up.
5. People started buying on margin, or buying stock on credit,
6. overspeculation during the 1920s
7. overproduction of goods,
8. uneven distribution of wealth, rich got richer and the poor got poorer
9. much borrowing from banks,
-Banks made it easy for people to get loans because of low interest rates
10. Federal Reserve increasedinterest rates,
11. lack of government regulation.
12. It effected the US by investors and businesses loose money, thousands of banks failed-savings are wiped, businesses cut production-lay off workers, uemployment rises-people quit spendmoney, grea depression set in, depression spreads to europe and other parts of the world.
--Causes of the Great Depression
1. Over production of goods
-Company made to many products
2. Uncerconsumption of goods b consumers
3. Agricultural slump due to overproduction
4. High protective tariff policies of the 1920's
5. Taxes beneftiting the rich-riche got richer por got poorer
6. Stock Market Crash
--Effects of teh Great Depression
1. New Deal prgrams start-makes the US gov't much larger
2. Defecit spending starts
3. The New Deeal createsmany organizations that are still aroundtoday- social security
4. Fascist military and communist dicatators come to power throughout the world
Blog Topics
1. 1928 Election(466)
-was between Herbery Hoover (R) and AL smith (D). The republicans believed in economic growth and prohibition. People didn't also elect Al Smith because he was catholic
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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