Wall Street

important time in America during the 1920s & 30s, impacting music, economy, and warfare. Music and dancing grew rapidly around the nation and gained a lot of popularity, specifically jazz. Economically, the Great War happened, which led to the Wall Street Stock Market Crash and eventually led to the Great Depression. People needed something to do to get through the Crash and the War so jazz music was a getaway for some people. Many liked jazz music because the lyrics and the artists could…

citizens from experiencing the life of a poor peasant but this storm got in the way in a huge sense. The Dust Bowl didn’t allow the Americans of the region to pay their needed taxes to keep us from going into the depression. Without these taxes, Wall Street didn’t have the needed money to try and reverse the side effects of the time period. As most of the citizens in this part of the country were not of the higher social anarchy, the richer figures had to pay more thus lowering our…

The Great Depression was a period of time lasting from 1929 to 1939 (a ten year span). The event that started it all was the stock market crash in October of 1929. 12.9 million shares were traded on October 12, 1929. The day became known as “Black Thursday.” Five days later 16 million shares were traded, making that day known as “Black Tuesday.” By March of 1930, 3.2 million Americans were unemployed and most had already lost their lifesavings, homes, and their hope. Riots began to break out by…

providing training for the young people. The NYA helped solve some of the problems during the depression, and although later abolished, was very successful. The Great Depression began in 1929, soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, sending Wall Street into panic (“The Great Depression). The youth unemployment rate went down rapidly and many were unable to afford education. The depression brought hardship to youth from entering the labor force…

Candles are best when burning the brightest, but ultimately melt quicker until it is burnt out, like the 1920’s American economy. After a flourishing era of the 20’s, the Crash of 1929 created devastation within the already fragile financial system until the effects of the dwindling economy instigated the Great Depression. Due to the disillusioned impact of World War I on U.S. economy, the Stock Market’s Black Tuesday brought many Americans during the 1920’s years of worldwide economic and…

By 1920’s, after world war 1, America had the biggest wealth in the world. Any country had the same wealth that America had, but this was close to the end. In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash occurred. Beginning one's of the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in America’s history, the great depression. At Black Tuesday a record 16 million of share were traded. Millions of shares ended up worthless, and those investors who had bought stocks “on margin” (with borrowed money) were…

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 on Wall Street led to the devastating Great Depression soon after revealing the flaws within American economy. President Herbert Hoover reacted by primarily depending on voluntary actions. The people reacted to his wage policies pretty negatively because they were ineffective. This affected the presidential election of 1932 because Hoover quickly became unpopular and was running out of ideas. Herbert Hoover challenged the economic depression more than any other…

To a large extent there were various factors that contributed to the collapse of the Weimar republic of Germany and the rising of Hitler’s national socialist German workers party into power on the 30th of January, 1933. Numerous conflicting problems were co-existing with the result of a republic that from the outset , its first governing body the socialist party (SPD) was forced to oppose with. This included the aspects of German imperialism , the unresolved defect of 1918, financial collapse…

the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall and bankrupting everyone from Wall Street barons to farmers. The most commonly repeated story behind the post-Thanksgiving…

Mark Twain allegedly once said, “History doesn’t always repeat itself, but sometimes it does rhyme”. The stock market crashes of 1929 and 2008 had many similarities and differences for their occurrence. On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded around 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world…