How did banks help to cause the Great Depression?

banking panics or “bank runs,” during which large numbers of anxious people withdrew their deposits in cash, forcing banks to liquidate loans and often leading to bank failure.

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Causes of the Great Depression

The stock market crash of 1929. During the 1920s the U.S. stock market underwent a historic expansion. ...

Banking panics and monetary contraction. ...

The gold standard. ...

Decreased international lending and tariffs.

an expansion is one of two basic business cycle phases; the other is contraction. the transition from expansion to contraction is a peak, and the changeover from contraction to expansion is a trough.

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