STOCK MARKET CRASH
I don't know what to do. I don't know what we are going to do. We've lost so much. The stock market crashed today and .... and we lost every penny we invested. Every last cent is gone. How did this happen? How did we loose so much?
- Mary Anne Smith

Everyone believed that the stock market crash is what through America into the Great Depression. In actuality it was only the tipping point. There were many factors that had been going on for years that not only set the stage for the stock market to crash and for the depression.

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This picture depicts stock brokers after the crash trying to deal with an angry crowd of investors.

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This picture is a headline from a newspaper. The headline reads "Black Tuesday", the name of the day the stock market crashed.