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Although not the only cause for the Great Depression, the stock market crash in October 1929, showed the weakness of the American economy in a concrete way. Read about how the stock market values were run up by speculation, and how it crashed.
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speculation, stock market crash, stock sell-off, stock speculation, stock values, ushistory.org, black thursday, great depression, independence hall association, j. p. morgan, new york stock exchange, stock market crash (october 29, 1929), u.s. history: the market crashes, causes of the great depression
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- Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)