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Went over the capitals. Test Wednesday.

Projects due Tuesday. Working on our projects

 the rest of the time.

So, basically we went over the U.S. map again, Marielle took her test and passed.(:

I really, honestly cannot remember half of the north-eastern states. Oh well. I guess I'll study. Test is Wednesday.

Now we are going to work on our Projects. :)

Today, we are watching a video again and then we can research i believe. Mr. Bruns is going over our blog assignment and powerpoint. Also, for my powerpoint, my topics are Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act and "Priming the Pump."

Chap. 15 i

TVA
The Tennessee Valley, which drains the Tennessee River and its tributaries, includes parts of seven states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

The federal government acquired the land in 1916, with th

1. What is pooling?

When people manipulated the stock market. Wealthy people buy stock, inflate the price, then sell. They'd buy people off to right nice things about the stock. The government didn't regulate the stock market. Fake inflation.

2. What w

1.     What is pooling?

 rich people pushed up value of stocks and then they would sell, thus crashing

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s take on the booming stock market?

 it was unstable. they looked down on it. thought it was reckless and da

1.     What is pooling? buying and selling stocks making stock prices go up

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s take on the booming stock market? they were very against it because they saw it as reckless and dangerous because it was based on

Today, we watched the video AGAIN, after we had the argument about how to pronounce almond. And then we had a work day.

1.     What is pooling?

A group of wallstreeters would buy stock to raise the price, get publicity, and then sell at high prices to an unsuspecting public.

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s take on the booming stock market?

They distrusted it,

1. What is pooling?
Wealthy investors would pool there money to buy a stock and then they would get other people to buy the stock by making it look like it was doing well by doing things like getting the newspaper people to write good things then the

We continued watching the video.. oh joy

4. What did Charlie Mitchell and several other Wall Street tycoons try to do to stop the crash?

Late October: They offered people easy credit so they could buy stock. They walked across the street and started bu

the video thing again.

1.     What is pooling?

 rich guys bought cheap stocks en masse, causing their value to go up, then selling it when they decided it was high enough. they would get off with a lot of money. then since the stock prices were overi

We watched the video again at the beginning of the hour. 

1.     What is pooling?

 wealthy investors would buy stock to inflate the stock, then sell it to make a profit

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s take on the booming stock market?

 they

Today we kept watching the movie. However, we took about 10 minutes to figure out where we left out. Super fun times.

A man talked about the chaos of Black Thursday, where people tried desperatly to sell their stocks but couldn't find bids. As a resul

Finished the lame movie, then the rest of class was a workday.

The Crash of 1929

Video Questions

1.     What is pooling?

Wealthy men from wall street buying stock, inflating it's price, and then selling it.

2.     What was the Federal Reserve Board’s ta

Today we started the class by listening to Dynamite by Taio Cruz...I don't like that song. :P Then we continued to watch the video that we started on Wednesday. I learned that on September 3, 1929 it hit the highest it's ever been.

4.     What did Ch