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On October 29, 1999, it was known as Black Tuesday the day when the stocks began to slip. This triggered many investors to begin to panic. The stock market crash making 15 billion lost in one day. Banks began to collapse due to many numerous loans made, these lead stock speculators to a recession and also the closing of many banks. During 1929, 600 banks close then in 1933, 11,000 or two 25,000 Banks closed. It is known that one of the causes of the great depression was the easy credit access. This idea about credit leads many people to have a mindset of "buy it now and pay later" meaning that you don’t have actual money to buy the things they wanted. As debt increase that leads spending to decrease. But then many things changed as our new president Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected he change many things one of the new ideas he added was the bank holiday this happen on March 6, 1933, banks were closed until they passed inspection also emergency banking bill was passed o...

Fashion is Everything During the roaring 20's fashion began to change and women began to change their looks. But first, we should look back how women use to dress before the roaring 20's. Well we can look back when the men were at war and women stayed and began working many of these women would wear ankle skirts not showing any skin, also with the long skirts women would wear long sleeve shirts or short sleeve shirt that would go up to their elbows so they wouldn't show any of their shoulders. In addition, they would wear ankle high leather black shoes and collars that were lace to cover their necks as well hats called "cartwheel" hats because these specific hats were huge and the brim was very wide too. But then a new era began known to be a "celebration" and began on November 1918 especially in big cities after the war ended but a huge impact hit this era with the new 78th amendment called Prohibition that prohibited citizens in the United States to...