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2025 Civics Test · Question 104 of 128
When did the Great Depression start?
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Accepted answers (USCIS M-1778)
- The Great Crash (1929)
- Stock market crash of 1929
Why this is the answerThrough the 1920s people borrowed money to buy stock, betting prices would keep climbing. In October 1929 enough of them sold at once that the panic fed itself, and the crash pulled the rest of the economy down with it.
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