Base your answers to questions 26-28 on the text below and on your knowledge of social studies.
LW. Burnham was a Wall Street stock broker in the
1920's
-People were making a lot of money in the stock market-you could sort of feel it really busy and they were feeling pretty good about themselves tomers or
this time that the public got more interested in the market than they had been. Stock prices had been going up point
steadily, and even though it was still mainly rich people investing, the average guy was starting to hear about up going
making 20,000 or 30,000
overnight. There was rampant [widespread speculation, and if you wanted to take ends
I you had to do was put up 10 percent of the money and a broker would cover the rest.
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Source: 1. W. Burnham, interviewed in Jennings and Brewster,The Century, Doubleday, 1998 (adapted)
26. The developments described in the document above are most likely related to which of the following events?
a. The stock market crash of 1929
b. The New Deal's Social Security Act
c. The attempt to monopolize the silver market
d. The Great Recession of 2008
27. What problem is being described in this document?
housing conditions
b. Too many people were buying stocks on credit
c. Not enough people were invested in the stock market
d. Banks did not invest in the stock market
28. The events described in this interview contributed to
a. Ahigher standard of living for all Americans
b. The Great Depress of
c. Repeal of regulations ubling stock trades
d.The success of the Republican party