causes of the great depression it is more than just the stock market crash
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Causes of the Great Causes of the Great DepressionDepression
It is more than just the stock market crashIt is more than just the stock market crash
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1. Stock Market crash❖ steady decline in value of stocks in Oct of 1929,
crashed at the end of the month and continued to decline until 1932
❖ Black Monday, Oct 28th - loss of 13%
❖ Black Tuesday, Oct 29th - loss of 12%
❖ crash is a cause, but also a reflection of larger problems in the economy
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Stock Market Crash
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Stock Market Crash
❖ Examples of decrease in the value of some stocks
Sept. 3, 1929 Nov 3, 1929
$182 $86 American Can$396 $168 General Electric$139 $49 Montgomery Ward
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Stock Market Crash
❖ Stock Market/Economics 101 reminder
❖ More people buy stocks - prices go
❖ More people sell stocks - prices go
❖ When EVERYONE PANICS and decides to sell at the same time, stocks go way, way down
UP
DOWN
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II. Unrealistic Expectations
❖ “American Dream” of consumer society
❖ post-World War I optimism
❖ the economy can only go up, stocks can only rise (uneducated investors)
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III. Speculation❖ people bought things with “credit”
❖ Ford’s installment buying
❖ stocks: buying on “margin” - investors borrowed $ to bet
❖ stock you buy = $50 (borrow) - stock goes up to $100, you sell that
stock to another - pay back bank and keep $50 suckerstock you buy = $50 (borrow) - stock goes down to $30, you have to
sell that stock and you still owe the bank $20 making you the sucker
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IV. Unequal distribution of wealth
❖ Although there was a growth of the middle class, there was still a gap between rich and poor
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V. Bank Failures❖ “bank runs”
❖ as people lost confidence, they went to the bank to remove their money, but it was not there - because $$$ banks had be loaned out
❖ as banks needed money, they collected debts from other places like houses and farms
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VI. Overproduction
❖ Both factories and farms were more efficient, more productive in the 1920’s as technology increased
❖ demand increased during and after the war as the people wanted more stuff; however, by the late 1920’s - supply exceeded demand
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Overproduction on farms and Dust Bowl
❖ More food than people needed-seriously???
❖ Example: wheat farmers in Oklahoma (Russian Revolution) Farmers borrowed to start new farms, felt they had to continue to increase crop production to pay debts
• People start on new life (head to California, etc.)
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Overproduction in factories❖ More finished products than people were willing to
buy
❖ Example: Model T Fords Ford continued to make cars, but demand decreased
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VII. Tariffs❖ isolationist attitude - rejection of Treaty of
Versailles, nativism, Red Scare, immigration restrictions
❖ tariff = tax on imports, led to decrease of imports and exports
❖ 1923 Fordney-McCumber
❖ 1930 Smoot-Hawley, considered a major cause of making America’s problems