Great Depression

Explain the Stock Market Crash.

• People purchased stocks with credit, got scared and sold their stocks. There was no money to pay people their money
• People purchased stock
• People threw their money away

 Define The Great Depression

• Loan given to help you buy items you normally cannot buy on your own.
• homeless person who travels looking for work.
• The time in American history when the U.S. was at it's lowest point.

Define Black Tuesday

• Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.
• October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the official start of the Great Depression
• Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.

Ownership in shares of a company or corporation

• CEO
• Insurance
• Stocks

Why was Henry Ford important to the 1920's?

• His Model T was very expensive
• The creation of the assembly line
• He put dodge out of business
• He was the President

What did the 18th Amendment do?

• I gave all citizens the right to vote
• It gave the government the ability to tax income
• It created Social Security
• I made the sale and production of alcohol illegal 

Who was Henry Ford?

• Car Maker
• Senator
• Painter
• Vice President

What is Prohibition?

• Fun
• alcohol is illegal
• alcohol is legal
• No Fun

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

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