1. Stock Market Crash of 1929
... Things such as cars, record players, appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators, canned food, ready made clothes, movies and radios. Others began investing in the stock market. In 1920 Warren G. Harding was elected president. His campaign saying was "return to normalcy" after the war. Congress voted in a tax on good from ... jobs they were not able to pay their debts. They could not pay back the loan companies. Many were forced to sell their homes and farms. The people who had stock tried to sell them. A panic set in. Soon everyone wanted to sell their stock at the same time. O...
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