Causes of the Wall Street Crash Poor distribution of income between rich and poor: the boom of the 1920s had been a consumer-led boom; it was led by ordinary families buying products for their homes. However, 42% of Americans were too poor to buy goods and the Republican policy remained not to interfere, and this included doing nothing about unemployment or poverty. But with workers’ wages not raising and prices not falling, demand for goods decreased and industries didn’t grow, so the prices of shares went down and the Wall Street Crash started.Overproduction
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