Secondary Sources

Books Bierman, Harold Jr. The Cause of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Specualtive Orgy or a New Era. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. Bierman's book delves into all of the possible causes of the stock market crash of 1929. He lists causes that he believes and he also lists causes that he proves against but have been said by others. With this resource, we were able to get into much deeper reasons of how speculation and margin calls affected the crash. We also learned of how inflated stock prices were.

Freedman, Russell. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York: Clarion, 1990. When we were researching about the Great Depression, we knew that we needed to include Franklin D. Roosevelt in our information. The material in Freedman's biography about FDR went into detail about how he came to office and what FDR did under a nation looking for leadership.

Osinski, Alice. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-second President of the United States. Chicago: Childrens, 1987. A series called the Encyclopedia of Presidents had a book on Franklin Roosevelt. Since he is one of the figures in history during our topic we decided to gather information from this book. It was a biography but Osinski did include some good information about the Great Depression and the stock market crash.

Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast, editors. UXL: American Decades: 1920-1929. Cleveland: The Gale Group, 2003. At the library, we found a series of books that provide information about a certain decade and we found the 1920s. Since the stock market crashed in 1929, it was appropriate for our use. We found some statistics of Wall Street averages and it dawned on us how much decline happened in only a month.

Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast, editors. UXL: American Decades: 1930-1939. Cleveland: The Gale Group, 2003. After we got our information about the crash of the stock market, we decided that we would follow up by using the 30s decade info book and get some material about the New

Deal and the Great Depression. The reference book just had everything that happened in the 1930s.

Spies, Karen Bornemann. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1999. Spies wrote a book solely on the life of FDR. In the book there was some information about his political life including the New Deal which we used. The information that we gained from Spies' book was added to our collection of knowledge of FDR and the Great Depression.

Stewart, Ross. Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression. Chicago: Steck-Vaughn Company, 1998. When we saw the cover, Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression, we knew that we had to have a look at the information that this book had. We could not believe that there was an entire section on the stock market and how that played an important role on the failures of banks and businesses. These failures were important factors that caused a depression.

Wroble, Lisa A. Kids During the Great Depression. New York: Rosen Group, 1999. In earlier research I gathered information about investors buying stocks on credit. As small as this book was, it provided simple, easy to grasp knowledge summarizing the Great Depression. We were also able to learn much more efficiently.

Wroble, Lisa A. The New Deal and the Great Depression. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2002. This book is a source that we got information about the Great Depression and the New Deal. It talked about how the U.S. went into a depression and how FDR rose to meet the needs of the country. We were able to know how the New Deal was started and how the many programs helped create jobs for many Americans.

Encyclopedias Mitchener, Kris James. "Great Depression". World Book. vol 8. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 2007. When we first began, we used this encyclopedia because they are great places to start for some general information about any topic. When researching about the Depression, we learned a little about the stock market crash and other economic results. We was able to branch out and see which areas of knowledge that we need to specifically delve into.

Textbooks Boyer, Paul Dr. American Nation. Atlanta: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2005. This source is a textbook about American history. We were able to use the section about the stock market crash. We learned about bank and business failures as well as how the entire nation was affected by the crash. We found the information helpful because we learned how more than just investors lost money by the crash.

Web Articles "Causes of the Great Depression". Info.com. October 10, 2012. <http://topics.info.com/Causesofthe-Great-Depression_4956>. One of the first things we did for our project was look for was how the stock market crash caused the Great Depression. We hit a website that showed all of the causes of the Depression. We learned how the crash affected business and bank collapses causing unemployment and in turn leading to Depression.

Colombo, Jesse. "The Stock Market Crash of 1929." Stock Market Crash! November 8, 2012. <http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929-crash/>. Jesse Colombo wrote an article about how the stock market crash happened. He opened up by talking about the twenties and how people treated the market. Then he went into detail about how the market benefited speculators and how Jesse Livermore correctly predicted the crash would happen. We were shocked when we heard that and how nobody listened to him.

"Registration Under the Securities Act of 1933". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. September 2, 2011. April 22, 2013. <http://www.sec.gov/answers/regis33.htm>. The SECs webpage for the Securities Act of 1933 provided us with material necessary for our website. We found that the main idea of this legislation was to provide investors information about the companies that they were investing in. We also learned how the SEC rules over companies and their securities.

Sarkar, Deepa. "Securities Exchange Act of 1934". Cornell University Law School. April 22, 2013. <http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/securities_exchange_act_of_1934>. This page from Cornell University Law School provided a detailed explanation of what the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 was about and what it addressed. We learned of how

it differs from the Securities Act of 1933. In fact the Exchange Act of 1934 created the SEC and the SEC regulates over the securities market.

Sarkar, Deepa. "Securities Law History". Cornell University Law School. April 22, 2013. <http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/securities_law_history>. We were looking for rules and regulations passed after the stock market crash. We knew that there were two securities acts that Congress passed. Cornell Universitys page about the history of these laws provided us with information about these securities laws and we were able to delve deeper into each specific law.

"The Crash 1929 (Black Friday)" ThinkQuest. April 22, 2013. <http://library.thinkquest.org/26495/stocki/crash%201929.htm#>. This website had a variety of information ranging from the causes, the actual event, and the consequences of the stock market crash in 1929. We mainly accessed the information regarding the rules placed after the crash to protect investors in the future. This is where we found details about the Glass-Steagall Act and how it was put into place to protect banks and their clients.