USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the worst happened in 1873 – during the time of the Freedman’s Bank. The panic started with a problem in Europe, when the stock market crashed. Investors began to sell off the investments they had in American projects, particularly railroads.

Detailed explanation-2: -Railroads were the nation’s largest non-agricultural employer. Banks and other industries were putting their money in railroads. So when the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company, a firm heavily invested in railroad construction, closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the “Long Depression” that weakened the country’s economic leadership.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1863 and 1913, eight banking panics occurred in the money center of Manhattan. The panics in 1884, 1890, 1899, 1901, and 1908 were confined to New York and nearby cities and states. The panics in 1873, 1893, and 1907 spread throughout the nation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The closing of Jay Cooke and Company’s doors began the economic disaster known as the panic of 1873. Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885): America’s eighteenth president (1869-1877), Grant received public blame for the panic of 1873.