Blogs

Here is the Google Doc that Conner and I worked on.

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

• Banks were failing
• People were buying on margin to pay for stocks and eventually wouldn't be able to pay the brokers

Today we reviewed for the semester stuff. We also went over test times. He talked about the Persian Gulf War which was August 1990-February 1991. Iraq invade Kuwait because Kuwait was stealing oil from them. 

Went over the times for the test for everyone and then went over the Persian Gulf War and 9/11 and then had a work day

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

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

Stock Market

• Began on Black Thursday (Oct. 24, 1929).  
• Dropped 11% that day.  On next Monday it fell 13% more.  
• There was a lack of government regulation.  
• Too much bo

es of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression? People kept buying and selling stocks. People went broke in the stock market and couldn't pay off loans. People tried to sell stocks for more than they were worth and no one would buy it.

President notes  group quizzes after every 4 presidents  focused on background and non-cold war achievements Semester test with Lydia, orally both have to answer the same question

Harry S. Truman-  33^rd president  became president on April 12^th after

went over war and afghanistan and Iraq

and we worked on our semester test blogs

SEMESTER TEST BLOG

Driving Ideas for Semester Two:

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

• Great Depression
  • "Sprial Era". Main cause was crash of stock market, nobody made any money. Deflation caused banks to

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

Banks would take money from people and invest it in stock markets without them knowing. Over production was also a cause and people weren't buying. Stock pooling is wh

Bill Clinton

• Failed to get his universal health care plane passed
• Whitewater Scandal
• Troopergate
• Paula Jones 0 settled $850,000
• Impeachment
  • Due to lying under oath about his “relationship” with Monica Lewinsky
  • The senate voted to acquit Clinton

Obama

• Was born

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

Stock Market

• Began on Black Thursday (Oct. 24, 1929).  
• Dropped 11% that day.  On next Monday it fell 13% more.  
• There was a lack of government regulation.  
• Too much bo

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

North Korea used to be in the nuclear proliferation treaty and then they dropped out. This raised red flags for the U.S.  We have evidence that they are testing nuclear weapons, but th

discussed more on semester tests!

1979- detente ended...mujaheddin fight communist, we gave money and weapons and helped strengthen Taliban,, early 80's us and soviet union cold war heated up. Iraq and Iran at war . we helped build up the group that t

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

• They want to continue using nuclear weapons, but they won't agree to use the weapons as self defence. During the Korean War, We siding with SK and pushing NK back. Dennis Rodman went o

US%20History%20Semester%20Test%20Blog.docx

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

Questions 1-3: One of the three-10 points

Questions 4-5: One of the two-10 points

Question 6: Required-10 points

Question 7: Two of the topics-10 points

Questions 8 and 9: Both required: 20 points

Question 10: Three of the topics-30 points

Semester Test Bl

Bill Clinton

• Back ground

• Born August 19, 1946

• Went to Georgetown university to study international affairs

• We won a rhodes scholarship and studied government at oxford university

Presidency

• Elected in 1992

• he was a two term president

• Served from 1993-2001

• 42n

We continued talking about presidents, and more people presented. The website was down today