Question

How did the Great Depression begin?

(1 point)
Responses

Investors began to worry the boom would end and began selling stocks.

Investors began to worry the boom would end and began selling stocks.

Investors paid back their loans too late to help the economy.

Investors paid back their loans too late to help the economy.

People were not willing to sell their stock.

People were not willing to sell their stock.

Farmers had to sell stock to pay for farm equipment.

Answer 1

Investors began to worry the boom would end and began selling stocks.

(Heavy selling—especially by those buying on margin—triggered the 1929 stock market crash that helped start the Great Depression.)