GREAT DEPRESSION

Objective: students will be able to identify and rank causes of the Great Depression.

Brain Burner Entry#1

Watch this five minute video. Why is it called the Roaring Twenties?

Critical Questions

1) How did the series of droughts impact the cause of the Great Depression?2) What did "buying on margin" do to make the stock market crash even worse?3) Why did overproduction contribute to the Great Depression?

Vocab

Black ThursdayBlack TuesdayBuying on MarginErosionDustbowlDrought

Stock Market Crash

Visual Analysis: Stock Market Crash

Visual Analysis: Run on Banks

Supply and Demand: 1920s

- Rising wages of 1920s

- Increase production: price of goods go up

- Speculation of market-Over Confident

- Buying on margin: credit

- Production continues to rise, wages don't increase, over

supply, no buyers = layoffs...massive layoffs 25% unemployed

- Stock prices fall

- People who bought stock on credit can't pay back loans

- Fall in wheat and corn prices, farmers can't pay back loans

Production: Visual Analysis

Visual Analysis: Cloud of...

Mismatched farming methods...

Visual Analysis

Visual Analysis

WEbsites

http://www.drought.unl.edu/whatis/dustbowl.htm"The Great Depression and Over Capitalization""Poor Land Management Practices"

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture18.html