Wall Street Crash Causes

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The Causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 The roaring twenties came to an abrupt halt on October 29, 1929 as the stock market crashed. The steep descent started October 24, 1929, and lasted four days with over sixteen million shares being traded. Now known as Black Tuesday, economist have studies this day to get the the bottom of what caused the economic crash. Economist have found that social presence, decreased industry, loss of agricultural growth, and the invention of credit is inevitably what caused the market to crash that October day. The social presence in the year 1929 was estadiac. World War I was finally over. Men were returning home to their wives, and moving into the growing industrialized cities to find jobs, homes, and to

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