1920s Stock Market Mania

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📚 Part 1: Quick Check

1. Which practice most directly increased individual investor risk during the 1920s?

Buying stocks on margin

Holding only government bonds

Investing exclusively in commodities

Keeping cash under the mattress

2. Check all that helped fuel the stock market mania:

Easy consumer and margin credit

Aggressive advertising and consumer optimism

Strict federal market regulation

Widespread speculative trading

3. Which individuals or institutions were linked to high finance and influence in the 1920s? (Select all that apply.)

J.P. Morgan and associated banking interests

Charles E. Mitchell (National City Bank)

Local small-town grocers

4. True or False: Most investors in the 1920s understood the full risks of margin buying.

True

False

✏️ Part 2: Guided Notes & Analysis

5. Background — List three key causes of the 1920s stock market mania:

1. ____________________________

2. ____________________________

3. ____________________________

6. Explain margin buying and why it was risky (one or two sentences):

7. Draw or summarize the pattern of speculative trading (boom → peak → bust). Use the space below to sketch a simple cycle or write a short sequence:

8. Analysis — Identify two warning signs of an economic bubble you would look for in primary sources:

1. ____________________________

2. ____________________________

9. Consequences — Provide one short-term and one long-term economic or social consequence of the mania:

Short-term: ____________________________

Long-term: ____________________________

10. Reflection — What human behaviors (briefly) most contributed to the market craze? (e.g., herd mentality, overconfidence)

📝 Part 3: Exit Ticket

11. In one sentence, name one key cause of the 1920s Stock Market Mania:

12. In one sentence, name one social or economic lesson today’s economy can learn from the 1920s:

1920s Stock Market Mania

1920s Stock Market Mania

📚 Part 1: Quick Check

✏️ Part 2: Guided Notes & Analysis

📝 Part 3: Exit Ticket

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