Black Thursday And Black Tuesday: The Beginning Of The Great Depression

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The beginning of the Great Depression began on October 1929 with the crash of the stock market. Production was decreasing as consumer spending goods started dropping and goods that weren’t sold went to waste and no profit was made. Slowly, but surely stocks started escalating with huge amounts of profits that had no justification. There were panic events such as “Black Thursday” and “Black Tuesday” in which millions of shares were traded and sold because of panic. As a result of these tragic events shares were worthless and investors were eventually completely wiped out. Many Americans started losing their jobs or were getting fired. From 1930 to 1931 things got worse and people were leaving their hometowns to go look for jobs else were. By

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