The stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the worst economic crisis in American history. During the next several years, the richest nation on earth learned what it meant to be poor.
Hard times _26__ their way into every area, group and job .Workers_27_ as factories closed . Farmers hit with falling prices and natural disasters were_28_ to give up their farms. Businessmen lost their stores, and sometimes their homes .lt was a severe economic crisis a(an)_29_—the worst of time.
The economic crisis began with the stock market crash in October, 1929 . For the first year, the economy_30 _very slowly . But it dropped sharply in 1931 and 1932 .And by the end of 1932,the economy_31_almost completely.
Falling production, Rising unemployment . Men begging in the streets . But there was more to the __32_crisis. At that time, the federal government did not guarantee the money that people put in banks. When people could not repay loans, banks began to close .In 1929, 659 banks
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A)frustration B)remedy C)fought D)forced
E)intensively F)depression G)struggled H)descended l)built J)fatal l)built M)found
N)extensively