Explain Why Did The Stock Market Crash Of The Great Depression

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Why did the stock market crash in October 1929? In the years leading up to 1929, with the finding of gold in Alaska, South America, and Canada, the US economy which held the gold standard at that time was receiving a large influx of wealth. This led to consumer confidence because if the country was doing so financially well, then logic leads one to believe that the country's businesses will be doing equally well. One way people took advantage of this influx was the stock market. Eventually people started investing more money than they had in the stock market, using loans from lenders. It got to the point where the amount of money being traded on the stock market from lenders and the amount of money sitting in shares exceeded the amount of money in circulation at the time. Compare the approaches of Hoover and FDR to the problems of the Great Depression? President Hoover believed it was best to leave business alone to right the economy…show more content…
Effectively, then, almost one out of every two U.S. households directly experienced unemployment or underemployment. For workers' families already facing hard times, the Depression's unemployment woes wreaked unprecedented, catastrophic havoc. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic contraction which brought about economic hardship and in some nations, political instability. In the United States a general banking failure brought about increased government regulation of the financial sector along with the broadening of the social safety net through the introduction of Social Security. Unemployment, which reached 25%, was relieved partially by Public Works (The WPA). A general failure of the Agricultural sector which began well before the Great Depression was mitigated somewhat by Agricultural subsidies and by soil and land conservation
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