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
- Aimed to restrict immigration from:
- Act of 1924
- 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
- Same as 4 plus
- 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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