s sell of stock the economy seemed stable and there was no shortage of investment funds. The market continued to go up and down until October 24 "black Thursday" prices fell and didn't recover. This would prove fatal. The stock market crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of The Great Depression, a difficult economic period for the United States and other countries.(3) Unemployment increased and the economic security of many people was threatened. Farmers lost
             their land, homeowners their homes, and workers their jobs. In the years following the stock market crash, thousand
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