Stock certificate. “Black Tuesday” headline (October 29, 1929)
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stock certificate
“Black Tuesday” headline (October 29, 1929)
Wall Street, Oct. 1929
stock market crash
stock market graph
evicted family
Depression billboard
Depression homeless
homeless camp
hobos
homeless children
“Hooverville”
Hooverville children
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
soup kitchen
Bonus Army outside capitol (1932)
burning of Bonus Army shacks (1932)
decreasing banks (1926-1940)
“bank run”
Causes of Great Depression• Troubled industries: coal mining and textiles• Farmers
1. Expenses rising faster than income2. Not reducing production > lower crop & livestock
prices 3. Large bank debts from good times in W.W.I• Stock market crash (October 1929)
1. Resulting loss of confidence in financial system2. Bankruptcy for some investors3. Fear > rich people reducing investing and
spending• International depression > drop in trade• Overproduction of factory goods (1920s rising
productivity)• Wages not keeping up with prices• 5,000 bank closings (1929-1932) >reduced credit• Too many urbanites and suburbanites• Increased tariffs > lower American imports and exports
Results of depression• Rising unemployment (3 % in 1929 > 25 % in 1933)• Many workers: fewer hours, and pay cuts Rising
homelessness • Deflation (lower prices)• Lower marriage and birth rates• Lower tax revenues to governments• Rising expenses for governments (helping needy)• Rising strain on charities like Red Cross• Decreased business investment and consumer
spending• Breakup of families • Families doubling up or growing food• Rising crime • Drop in college students• Urban “Hoovervilles” • 1930 -1934: 1 million families losing farms • “Bonus Army” riot (Washington, D.C. ; 1932)
Hoover administration’s reaction • Urging business owners not to lay off
workers or lower wages• Urging private charities to help needy
(“soup kitchens”)• Public-works projects (schools, dams,
highways)• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
in 1932 > loaning money to banks, railroads, and insurance companies
• Opposing direct financial help to citizens• Reducing income taxes• Loans for defaulting homeowners
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