Webquest Homework

The Great Depression

The Stock Market Crash of 1929

In your textbook read pages 724-725 (stop at the Great Depression)

1.  What is a stock exchange?

2.  Describe the process of buying stocks on margin.

 

 

 

Go to this website and learn about the stock market crash of 1929. Use your reading and Use this video link ( a short 6 minute video) to answer the following questions.

3.  Throughout the twentieth century how has capital in the U.S. been represented?

4.  How did the bursting of the stock market bubble in 1929 effect the American economy?

5.  Explain three reasons why the stock market collapse effected banks.

6.  How did FDR fix the problems with the nations banks in 1933?