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How Were The Events That Defined The 1920's

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Question: How did the events that defined the Twenties as a prosperous period in history, also lead to the collapse of the US and world economies?

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Thesis: The Roaring Twenties directly caused the collapse of the stock market for the following reasons: a false sense of prosperity, deficiency of available credit, and the over farming of the midwest.
Although the twenties seemed fairly stable, a time with much wealth, they directly caused the collapse of the stock market, which led to the Great Depression. A time of much economic hardship in American history and thought the world. The people had tried to live in this seemingly stable facade, when in reality, their global market was failing.
Body Paragraph 1: False Sense of Prosperity.
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