TIME TRIP.(story of the great depression of 1930s America)(Brief Article)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: October 26, 2001 | Copyright information

* The United States has experienced recessions before. If a recession is particularly deep and long lasting, it's called a depression. The worst U.S. depression was the Great Depression, which began with a stock market crash.

* On October 24, 1929--a day now called Black Thursday--stock prices plummeted. In the following days, people who had invested in the stock market panicked and tried to sell their stocks. But everyone wanted to sell and no one wanted to buy. Thousan...

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