History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1222 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Panic Breaks
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The idea
The inflated economic bubble burst in eighteen nineteen, producing a prolonged economic depression called the Panic of eighteen nineteen.
In practice
Crop prices tumbling by as much as seventy-five percent.
Where people slip
The word panic understates it. The anchor calls it a prolonged depression, not a moment of alarm.
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