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Define the term Stock Market crash

Stock Market Crash was responsible for the Great Depression. Middle class families lost all their savings as they had gambled the market on margin.Those banks which were under the loan ofbrokers’ started removing money out of the savings accounts of simple, frugal people who had kept their money in the bank assuming it to be a treasure house where their money was kept safe from thieves and fires.Corporations,whose cash assets were reduced or completely finished, reduced their production or closed down completely.People were thrown out of work and those who survived got their wages cut marginally. More and more businesses and factories closed their doors. Unemployed workers who had taken out mortgages were unable to pay back the amount and lost their homes. There was not enough very rich had to sustain Five and Dime stores, beauty parlors, and manufacturers of vacuum cleaners so they also got locks on their shops.

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