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NameDateIntellectual Devotional American History Worksheet: Stock Market Crash of 1929. Before reading the attached short article on the stock market decline and crash in October, 1929, please use a dictionary to define the vocabulary words below. Then read the article and answer the questions about the text. Some of the questions ask for your opinions and thoughts about the subject; please remember that there are no wrong answers to these questions.VocabularySuicide (noun):Speculate (verb):Traumatic (adjective):Magnitude (noun):Prosperous (adjective):Amid (preposition):Impose (verb):Essence (noun):The TextWhat happened on the morning of Thursday, October 24, 1929?What had happened to stock prices since World War I up to October 24, 1929? How is that October day now known?What happened to the value of stocks on Black Thursday? What did this lead some speculators to do?What happened on the Monday and Tuesday following Black Thursday? What had happened to the value of the Dow by 1932?How are the five days of the stock market crash viewed historically? How did the events of 1929 compare with the Panics of 1837 and 1873?Why in the 1920s had Americans invested their savings in the stock market? What did the make the events of 1929 for the average American?What fueled the stock market bubble that caused the 1929 crash? What was the consequence for banks?What did the 1929 crash lead the U.S. Congress to do?Additional FactsWhen was the biggest one-day percentage decline in stock market history? How far did the market fall?How was stock market information transmitted in 1929? What happened to this technology during the crash?What happens today on the New York Stock Exchange if stock prices begin to decline rapidly?What is your source for this information? ................
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