Question

How can we compare contrast the panic of 1873 from pres. grant's term to the crash of 2008 in bushes term???

Answer 1

Read about both and see if you can see anything the two events had in common:

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h213.html

http://www.thebalance.com/the-great-recession-of-2008-explanation-with-dates-4056832

For more information, google both the "panic of 1873" and "the recession of 2008" and you will find more articles.

Answer 2

You may also want to look at the panic of 1893, the panic of 1907, and the Great Depression of 1929-30 to find similarities among all of them, largely due to unregulated speculation and "booms" that went "bust".