Modern Era · North America · Politics
1929
Wall Street crashes
October 24, 1929
On Black Thursday the New York Stock Exchange dropped eleven percent at the opening bell. By the following Tuesday it had lost a quarter of its value. Bankers jumped from windows, not enough to matter. Margin calls rolled out across the country, banks failed, and the roaring twenties curdled into the Great Depression.
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