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The Great Depression

The Great Depression

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History

11th Grade

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Charles Greenway

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Guess: What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

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Black Friday
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Taco Tuesday
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Black Tuesday
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Throwback Thursday

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When did the Stock Market crash?
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1919
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1929
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1985
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1829

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This cause led many businesses to close, because they were producing more goods than consumers were willing to buy.
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Overproduction 
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Underconsumption 
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Buying on Credit 
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Stock Speculation 

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When the purchase of goods and services is at a lower level then the supply (not enough goods are being purchased by consumers)
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Underconsumption
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Overproduction 
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Speculation 
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Buying on Margin 

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This is making a very risky investment in the stock market, in hopes of earning a large profit
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Speculation 
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Buying on Margin 
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Bank Run 
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Bull Stock 

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This is the process of taking money borrowed from the bank or a broker, and putting it into the stock market
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Buying on Margin 
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Speculation 
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Buying on Credit 
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Overconsumption 

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The Dust Bowl was a problem with farmland that happened during the Great Depression. The topsoil of fields dried up and blew in huge storms throughout the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl happened for two MAIN reasons:
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farmers overplanted their fields and there was a drought
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New Deal programs ruined farms and there was a drought 
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farmers overplanted fields and President Hoover ended the New Deal
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farmers sent too much food to soup kitchens and did not save enough for themselves 

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What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?
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Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
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Unemployment decreased gradually.
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Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
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Hoover was re-elected as president.

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Who was the President of the United States when the Stock Market crashed?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
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Woodrow Wilson
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Theodore Roosevelt

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People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?
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Shantyshacks
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Town Homes
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Tenement Housing
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Hoovervilles

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What is one solution you would have offered to lessen the negative impacts of the Great Depression?

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