The Stock Market Crash

The United States Stock Market Crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression. Background on the Great Depression The Great Depression was an economic slump in the United States and Europe that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. This was the longest and most severe Depression in United States history. The Depression began with the disastrous collapse of the Stock Market in October 1929. Stock Prices dropped the worst during the third and fourth …

…It explained everything from Black Thursday, Black Monday, and Black Tuesday, to explicit facts about the Crash that I used to elaborate paragraphs on my paper. 11) "The Stock Market fell to its lowest point during the Depression". The Library of Congress. 26 April 2005. <http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/stockmarket_1.> This website explains the days in which the Stock Market crashed, and the effects that it had on Americans.