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Cause and EffectThe stock market crash in the fall of 1929On just one day, October 29, frantic traders sold off 16,400,000 shares of stock. At year`s end, the government determined that investors in the market had lost some $40 billion.Banks started to fail, leaving citizens with no savings.
Policies still around from the New Deal
• Bank Reforms• Wagner-Steagall Housing Act• Tennessee Valley Authority • National Labor Board and Wagner Act• Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Multiple Choice Question
• President ________ was in office during the Great Depression, but President ________ was the one to create the New Deal.
• A) Franklin Roosevelt; Herbert Hoover• B) Harry Truman; Franklin Roosevelt• C) Calvin Coolidge; Harry Truman• D) Herbert Hoover; Franklin Roosevelt