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1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

• Overspeculation

• Overproduction of Goods

• “Buying on margin”

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Too much borrowing from banks

• Stock prices grossly inflated, didn't have real value

History Semester Test Blog

Maggie McGrath and Jordyn Moser

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

• Buying on Margin- borrow from brokers (pay for 10-20% of stock borrow 80-90% of stock) allowed common people

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929? and the Great Depression?

• Stock Market is the buying and selling of stocks

• Overproduction of Goods and under consumption by consumers- Business' made goods but people didn't need them

• Banks Inve

Semester Test Blog

Semester 2 Test Blog

1a. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

• Stock- ownership share in a cooperation Stock Market-Where stocks are sold and traded

• Black Thursday was a mini crash before the crash - Black Tuesday was the day the

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

-many people had large debt, buying things on credit

-companies started going under because people weren’t buying goods

-stock prices over valued because of speculation,

Semester Blog

US History

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Overproduction, Buying on Margin, bank failures, under-consumption, american economic policy with Europe, tariffs, less world trade, drought (d

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

• Company profits went down when supply exceeded demand; people had all they wanted and stopped buying
• People buy on margin (10% of stocks real value); stocks were grossl

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Stock Market

• Began on Black Thursday dropped 11%,
• Dropped 13% on Black Monday
• Lack of government regulation-stock prices were grossly inflated, had no real value
• Buying stock

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929- lack of government regulation, buying stocks on margin! Pooling, Over-priced stock. By 1930, between 6 and 7 million people were unemployed. And the Great Depression? - The Stock Market Crash, B

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

lack of government regulation, buying stock on margin, over priced stocks, pooling, people not paying off debt. Final blow of crash on Tuesday Oct. 29th, 1929, fell an

Semester Test Blog

1.) What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Buying on Margin

• Overproduction and Underconsumption of

• Businesses kept producing goods that people couldn’t by

• Stock went down

• Banks Investing

  • t

1.) What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Buying on Margin

• Overproduction and Underconsumption of

• Businesses kept producing goods that people couldn’t by

• Stock went down

• Banks Investing

  • t

Blog

1. Describe the situation/conflict between the US and North Korea.

We have very high tensions with North Korea. Dennis Rodman, a former NBA star, has been doing so called “basketball diplomacy”. Had a birthday basketball game for Kim-Jong Un, and sang

reviewed for semester test

Today we went over semester tests and videos.

We went through our semester test times and test questions 

Took some notes on Afghanistan, Persian Gulf War, and Iraq