USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
A
Great Depression
B
Great Compromise
C
Great Gatsby
D
Great Pumpkin
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5, 000 banks had gone out of business.

Detailed explanation-2: -The stock market crash of 1929 had a devastating effect on the culture of the 1930s. As investors, businesses, and farms lost money, they started to shutter and lay off workers. Banks closed as well. The Great Depression began in the 1930s, leading to soup kitchens, bread lines, and homelessness across the nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main cause of the Wall Street crash of 1929 was the long period of speculation that preceded it, during which millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels.

Detailed explanation-4: -Business houses closed their doors, factories shut down and banks failed. Farm income fell some 50 percent. By 1932 approximately one out of every four Americans was unemployed.

Detailed explanation-5: -However, the era came to a dramatic and abrupt end in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, paving the way into America’s Great Depression of the 1930s.

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