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The Crash of 1929: American Experience Movie Worksheet

Directions: Answer the following questions based on the movie. The questions are listed in the order they appear in the film. You do not have to answer in complete sentences.

What was the “New Era” the people believed in as 1929 dawned? What song epitomized this feeling?

What is a stock and what dictates its value? By 1929 how long had stock prices been rising?

What promise did Herbert Hoover make during his election campaign in 1928?

What was consumer credit? What was the saying and attitude of the 1920's about prosperity?

Where did Evangeline Adams get her information on stocks and what did she predict in February of 1929?

What was a “pool” and who used them? Why is this illegal today?

What did economist Roger Babson warn the American public about the stock market in 1929 and how did people react to him?

Why did the Federal Reserve Board distrust the stock boom of 1929? Why did they do nothing?

What was happening to the American economy in the late 1920's? (Wages, spending, prices, etc.)?

What is a “panic” and what ends up causing a panic?

When was the real crash? What was it like? What did this crash do to many middle class peoples' retirements?

By the end of 1929, how had the Stock Market crash changed the attitude or spirit of the 1920's?

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