Stock Market Crash

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Melissa Mitchell, Kathleen (Kati) Searcy

As a hook to a lesson on the Stock Market Crash of 1929, 5th grade students will analyze five items:  two political cartoons, one photograph, one sound excerpt, and one newspaper.  Students will use the Primary Source Analysis tool to record observations, reflections and questions of these five items.

Political Cartoon https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649515/


Political Cartoon 2 https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.146360.html

Photograph https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c23429/


Newpaper Headline http://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/wall-street-lays-an-egg-famous-everett.jpg


Audio of Crash (starting at :45)  https://archive.org/details/SoundsOfTheCrash

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