USH Weekly Blog 1-30/2-3

Monday:

Stock Market Crash 

  • What is a stock?
    • A stock is a type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporation assets and earrings 
  • What is stock market?
    • Market of exchange of stock 
  • Stock market crash 
    • A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross- section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of money causing mass panic 
  • Credit Boom
    • Rapid expansion of lending  by financial institutions
    • People got loans from the bank to buy stocks and were unable to pay back loans were due 
  • Buying on the margin 
    • You could buy 10-20% of a share and meant you were borrowing 80-90% of shares 
    • Getting more money per share 
    • "Margin Millionaire" 
    • Once the stock profits fell it wipes most of them because they owed large amounts of money 
  • Mismatch and consumption 
    • Over production 
    • Companies were making all of the productions 
    • People were unable to buy all of these things once they lost all of their money in the crash 
    • Left over products 
  • Weakness in the bank system 
    • 30,000 banks in America 
    • Prone to becoming bankrupt if they were to run out of funds/deposits 
    • Many banks in rural area went bankrupt due to agricultural recession 

Mr. Bruns Presentation 

  • The Roaring 20's 
  • Republican Era
  • The Jazz Age 
  • The Lost Generation 
  • Boom to Bust 
  • Decade of Normalcy 
  • Prosperity Decade 
  • Prohibition Era
  • The Advertising Age 
  • The Golden Age of Sports 
  • The Red Scare 
    • 1919-1920
  • Karl Marx 
  • Fredric Engels 
  • Vladimir Lenin 
  • Palmer Raids 
  • J. Edgar Hoover 
  • Sacco and Vanzetti 
  • Ku Klux Klan 
  • Immigration in the 1920's 
    • Act of 1924 
      • Aimed to restrict immigration from: 
        • Southern Europeans 
        • Easter Europeans 
        • Jews
  • Harding 
  • Coolidge 
  • Hover
  • Republican Phiosophy- 1920's 
    • Trickle-down theory 
    • Laissex-faire 
    • Rugged individualism 
    • Normalcy 
  • Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes 
  • 4 Power Treaty 
    • US, GB, France, Japan 
    • Each country would respect each other possessions in the Pacific 
  • 5 Power Treaty 
  • 9 Power Treaty 
    • Same as 4 plus
      • Netherlands 
      • Portugal 
      • Belgium 
      • China 
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact-1928 
    • 62 countries pledged not to use war to settle disputes
  • Albert Fall- Teapot Dome Scandal 
  • Route 66 "The Mother Road"
  • Airplanes in the 1920's 
    • Mail carrying 
    • Transporting small groups of people 
    • Military 
    • Entertainment 
    • Major feats 
  • Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy" 
  • Amerlia Earhart 
  • Rural vs. Urban 
  • Prohibition 
  • Bootlegging 
  • Moonshine 
  • Charles Darwin 
  • The Scopes Monkey trial 
  • The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics 
    • Piety 
    • Purity 
    • Domesticity 
    • Submissiveness 
  • Flapper girls 
  • Sungglepuppies 
  • Clara Bow
  • Oxford Bags 
  • Greta Garbo 
  • Mary Pickford 
  • Charlie Chaplin 
  • Douglass Fairbanks 
  • Rudolph Valentino 
  • Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer 
  • The Marx Brothers 
  • Harry Houdini 
  • Babe Ruth 
  • Jack Dempsey 
  • Gene Tunney 
  • Bobby Jones 
  • Bill Tilden 
  • Red Grange 
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • W.E.B DuBois 
  • James Weldon Johnson 
  • Marcus Garvey 
  • William Johnson 
  • Palmer Hayden 
  • Louis Armstrong 
  • The Cotton Club
  • Duke Ellington
  • Cab Calloway
  • Bessie Smith
  •  New York Stock Exchange 
  • Causes of the Stock Market Crash 
    • Stock Prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices 
    • Over speculation during the 1920's 
      • Led to watered stock 
    • "Buying on margin"
      • Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
    • Overproduction of goods 
    • Uneven distribution of wealth 
    • Too much borrowing from banks 
    • Federal Reserve increased interest rates 
    • Lack of government regulation 

Tuesday: We watched a video over the 1920's that covered everything we went over in the presentations 

Wednesday: We continued looking over Mr. Bruns presentation on the 1920's. This was just a little over view of what we did our presentations on plus a little bit more information 

Thursday: Continued taking note on Mr. Bruns presentation (note are up on Monday)

Friday: Watched a video over the 1930's 

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