The Great Depression
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The Great Depression
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A Day of Reckoning
On
Black Tuesday, October 24,
1929, the Stock Market collapsed.
Wall Street Stock-Market Crash Of 1929
The crash
precipitated the
Great
Depression, the
worst economic
downturn in the
history of the
United States.
A Day of Reckoning
In the words
of a gray
haired Stock
Exchange
guard, "They
roared like a
lot of lions
and tigers.
A Day of Reckoning
They hollered and
screamed, they
clawed at one
another. The
trading floor of the
New York Stock
Exchange was
like a bunch of
crazy men.
A Day of Reckoning
Every once in a
while, when Radio
or Steel or Auburn
would take
another tumble,
you'd see some
poor devil
collapse and fall
to the floor."
Wall Street Stock-Market Crash Of 1929
The stock
market was in
shambles.
Many banks
couldn't
continue to
operate.
Farmers fell
into
bankruptcy.
Outcomes of the Crash
The Wall
Street Crash
brought the
Roaring
Twenties to an
end and led to
a Depression
in America.
The Lowest Point
The Great Depression was probably
the lowest point in American
economic history.
Wall Street Stock-Market Crash Of 1929
It
had
devastating
effects on
the country.
The Lowest Point
In fact, it was
so bad that
most of the
world was
hurt
economically
at the time.
Stocks
One of the
reasons this
happened was
how people
had invested
in stocks
during the
1920s.
Foolish Investments
Many people
used credit
to invest,
and some
companies
they
invested in
were
worthless.
Foolish Investments
When investors
started to wise up,
lots of people sold
stock quickly, the
prices went down
fast, and almost
everybody lost
money.
1930s
The 1930s were
times of great
depression
resulting in
sweeping
changes.
Wall Street Stock-Market Crash Of 1929
A quarter of
the working
force, or 13
million people,
were
unemployed in
1932, and this
was only the
beginning.
Out of Business!
Many
companies went
out of business,
and by 1933,
one out of every
four people in
America had
lost his or her
job.
A Way Out
Financial
institutions
collapsed.
Starving People
Some people
starved trying
to find work,
while others
did all they
could to just
hang on a little
longer. Some
could only find
food in soup
lines.
New Deal
When Franklin D.
Roosevelt accepted
the Democratic
nomination for
president of the United
States in 1932, he
pledged to create "...a
new deal for the
American people."
New Deal
The New Deal
became the
term that
described all of
Roosevelt's
later efforts to
help the tens of
millions of
people.
The New Deal developed government
programs to help the needy.
A Way Out
It wasn't until
World War II
started that the
U.S. and world
economies
straightened
out.