{"id":1242,"date":"2017-12-05T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-12-05T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:57:36","slug":"us-history-chapter-14-1-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/2017\/12\/05\/us-history-chapter-14-1-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"US History Chapter 14.1 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins (1929-1933)- <\/strong><strong>Section 1: The Nation\u2019s Sick Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Give specific examples to show how the superficial prosperity of the late 1920s hid troubling weaknesses in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Identify reasons why agriculture suffered more throughout the 1920s than any other part of the country.<\/li>\n<li>How were Americans able to live beyond their means in the 1920s?<\/li>\n<li>How was the distribution of income so unequal in the United States during the 1920s?\u00a0 How was this bad for the economy?<\/li>\n<li>What is the economic significance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?<\/li>\n<li>What is \u201cspeculation\u201d? What does it mean to &#8220;buy on margin&#8221;?\u00a0 How did these practices contribute to creating the Great Depression?<\/li>\n<li>What happened on \u201cBlack Tuesday\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why did so many banks fail so quickly during the early 1930s?<\/li>\n<li>How many people were unemployed in 1929? 1933?<\/li>\n<li>What happened to ordinary workers during the Great Depression?<\/li>\n<li>List the major causes of the Great Depression.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Book Link to Chapter 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/icomets.org\/ush-textbook\/ch14.pdf\">https:\/\/icomets.org\/ush-textbook\/ch14.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins (1929-1933)- Section 1: The Nation\u2019s Sick Economy Give specific examples to show how the superficial prosperity of the late 1920s hid troubling weaknesses in&#8230; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/2017\/12\/05\/us-history-chapter-14-1-questions\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}