On October 29, 1929 the United States Stock Market crashed. The reasons for the crash were overproduction, where industries were producing more than the population could buy; speculation, where people were buying on margin, using unsecured stocks, as a guarantee to buy more stocks; government policies, where banks gave out risky loans, and consumers needed to borrow money; and becoming a debtor nation, where consumers and companies were using borrowed money to expand their own businesses. After the Stock Market crashed, industrial production slowed down, people started to lost their jobs, and gradually lost everything. President Hoover tried to fix the Stock Market by helping failing banks and other companies with government loans but was unsuccessful. President Roosevelt took office in 1933, and created New Deal programs that aimed to fix homelessness, unemployment, farming, banking, and the stock market. Roosevelt’s administration and New Deal …show more content…
After five days, people were panicking and more 16 million shares were sold. But all of those shares were worthless, and investors who bought stocks with borrowed money were ruined. In 1934, a New Deal program, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created. The SEC adjusted the securities market, (Doc. 10) and investors in U.S security markets were better protected from fraud. The Banking Act of 1933, created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), that gave depositors a scape when a bank fails, and authorized branch banking (Doc. 10). Another New Deal program that was created during Roosevelt’s administration was the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, that was delegated to provide for the safer and more effective use of the benefits of banking regulate inter banic control. The population started to trust again in the banks, and progressively began depositing of shortly ⅔ of their money again into