The Wall Street Crash

by Alex Woolf

Book Overview

Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, was the day an era came to an end. The 1920s had been a magical time in the history of the U.S.-- a time of jazz, flappers, and gangsters, and a time when the stock market encouraged dreams of unlimited wealth. Thousands of people bought shares and watched their value soar at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. But on Black Tuesday, it all came to a shuddering halt. Stock prices plummeted. Panic set in. Fortunes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073985237X
• ISBN13: 9780739852378
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Raintree
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8