Question

1. What was the role of the stock market and speculation in the Great Depression of 1929?

 

2. What was the role of technology in the expansion of the stock market in the 1920s?

 

3. What was the "consumer revolution" of the 1920s?

 

4. How did the availability of credit change?

 

5. What is "buying on margin"?

 

6. How did stock manipulation work? Was it legal?

 

7. Was President Calvin Coolidge for or against government regulation of financial services companies?

 

8. Who was President at the start of the Great Depression?

 

9. What was the view of the Fed of the stock market boom in March of 1929? Did the Fed take any action then? Why or why not?

 

10. What are "margin calls"? What was their role in the crash?

 

11. What was the role of astrology in the stock market boom?

 

12. How was the stock market performing in May of 1929?

 

13. What day was the "all-time high" of the stock market in 1929?

 

14. When did the collapse of the stock market begin?

 

15. How did Roger Babson view the stock market boom?

 

16. What happened on "Black Thursday"?

 

17. How did the Bankers try and stop the panic at the stock market?

 

18. Who was affected by the crash?

 

19. Were there new stock regulations in the 1930s?

 

20. What are three similarities in the causes of the Great Depression and the Great Recession of the 2008 Financial Crisis?