How Did The Stock Market Contribute To The Great Depression

The United States, when it was first starting out as a country was prosperous. It was known as "the land of opportunity”, this meant that anyone from anywhere that wanted to make a better life for their family could come to America and do it. But, in 1929 Americas stock markets had crashed and led the country into a Great Depression. The Great Depression made it hard for everyone to live let alone the “American Dream” The stock markets are the main reason that America went into a Great Depression. The stock markets contributed to the Great Depression by over speculation, marginal loans, and businesses and banks failed. “The largest depressions are particularly likely to be accompanied by stock-market crashes, and this finding applies equally