Chapter 23 The Great Depression Stock Market 1
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Chapter 23 The Great Depression
Stock Market 1 in 20 families bought stock Dow Jones up 350% in 5 years # of investors drive up prices
Many people speculate on prices of stock “Buy on the margin”
Black Tuesday October 29, 1929
Causes of the Great Depression 1. Lack of Diversity 2. Poor distribution of Purchasing Power 3. Credit Structure 4. International Debt
During the Depression: *9000 banks fail *Depositors lose $2. 5 billion *GNP drops 25% *2 million take to the roads
1929 3% unemployment 1932 24% By 1933 13 million or 1/3 of Americans out of work NO
Wages drop from 1929 $25 per week to $17 in 1932
Farm income drops 60% 1/3 of farmers lose their land Farm prices too low to make money
Farmers dump milk
Kansas 1935
Rolla, Kansas
African-American and the Depression Drop in farm prices force many off the land Go to towns
50% unemployment for Southern Blacks Some whites in the South demanded that all Blacks be dismissed so white could have the jobs
Black Shirts – Atlanta “No jobs for Blacks until every white man has a job”
Scottsboro Boys 9 teens arrested in Alabama for rape Convicted despite evidence
Powell v. Alabama Supreme Court overturns conviction th 14 Denied Amendment rights Not given competent legal counsel
Entertainment
Busby Berkeley Musical
Radio
Ed Wynn on the Radio
Abbott & Costello
Hindenburg
John Steinbeck
Erskine Caldwell
Hoover and advisors think country just in a recession Asks business not to lay off workers and labor not to ask for raises No one listens
Hoover wants to avoid government helping – wants private charities to do the job Will later try to help with government spending, but too conservative to spend enough
Reconstruction Finance Company Federal loans to banks Only large banks that are not in too much trouble
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Willis Hawley Reed Smoot
Bread line NYC
Farm Auction
Hoovervilles
PROTESTS
Farmers upset about low crop prices and bank foreclosures *try to keep crops from market *disrupt farm auctions
1924 Congress votes bonus to WWI vets, to be paid in 1945 1932 vets want the money now
Bonus Army Bonus Expeditionary Force 20, 000 veterans and families March on Washington-say they will stay until bonus is passed
Hoover calls out the Army led by Chief of Staff Douglas Mc. Arthur
Camp Marks
Over 100 injured including a 7 year old boy bayoneted in the leg 2 babies killed by gas
1932 Election What do the Republicans do about Hoover?
FDR Happy Days Are Here Again
“I pledge you. . . A New Deal for the American People”
- Stock market crash cartoon 1929
- Black tuesday political cartoon
- Great depression vocabulary
- From business culture to great depression
- Chapter 22 the great depression begins
- Chapter 33 the great depression and the new deal
- Leader challenger
- Market segmentation and positioning
- Chapter 8 the stock market
- Great depression vocabulary
- Rarig great depression
- Great depression
- Sec the great depression
- Foreclosure great depression
- Five effects of the great depression
- Five effects of the great depression
- How did the great depression impact the world
- Mein kampf definition ap world history
- Bud not buddy
- Donald justice pantoum of the great depression
- The great depression summary
- What is deflation
- Okies great depression
- The great depression leq
- Roaring twenties scavenger hunt answers
- How did the great depression affect south carolina
- Timeline of the great depression
- Great depression causes
- Mexican repatriation apush
- Hoovervilles
- Birth rate during the great depression
- Overspeculation great depression
- Great depression vocab
- Great depression
- Http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression
- Black tuesday great depression
- Hawley-smoot tariff great depression
- Hardship and suffering lesson 2
- Great depression budget activity
- 1932 electoral map
- Laissez faire great depression
- Laissez faire great depression
- Dust bowl acrostic poem
- Hoovervilles great depression
- Great depression political cartoons
- Pros and cons of the great depression
- Great depression vocabulary jeopardy
- Great depression
- Great depression webquest
- Compare and contrast herbert hoover and fdr
- James zwerg
- Hoover's response to the great depression
- Great depression
- What was hoover's response to the great depression
- Us history eoc review the great depression and the new deal
- Great depression
- Great depression
- Great depression drawing
- High tariffs great depression
- Great depression photographer
- Hoover's response to the great depression
- Great depression
- Herbert hoover great depression political cartoon
- What were the long term causes of the great depression
- The great depression outline
- Great depression journal entry
- Franklin d. roosevelt
- What does aaa stand for great depression
- During the great depression there were many wanderers
- What was the great depression
- Great depression jeopardy
- Ww1 to great depression cloze notes
- Chapter 8 employment labor and wages
- Describe the human toll of the great depression
- Long-term debt preferred stock and common stock
- Stock adalah
- Preferred stock characteristics
- Pramv
- Activity sheet 2: stock market calculations answer key
- Stock market game 1920s
- Classroom stock market game
- Stock market crash in 1929
- Activity sheet 2 stock market calculations answer key
- Thai stock market set index series
- 8-2 stock market data
- Stock market virtual
- Definition of vocabulary
- Stock market notes
- Stock market
- Stock market in 1920
- Black friday stock market crash