An in depth look at 3 American Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. This essay describes these 3 presidents and how they impacted america during their presidencies.

All and all, Dow Jones Industrial Average was the most widely used

barometer of the stock market's health. The stocks were very big and important

to the people. In September 1929, stock prices peaked and then fell

drastically. Confidence of the people dropped, and investors quickly sold their

stocks. On October 24, it got worse and fell even more, more investors unloaded

their shares. On October 29, Black Tuesday arrived. The bottom fell out of the

market and of the nations confidence. The number of shares dumped was a record

16.4 million. Many people were stuck with debts as the prices plummeted. By

mid-November, investors had lost about $30 billion, this was equal to the amount

spent in World War 1. All of this was the beginning of the Great Depression,

the period from 1929 to 1940 where the economy was horrible and unemployment

skyrocketed.

These three presidents had very hard tasks, and that was just being the

president of the United States. That was hard enough for them and then with

these major events occurring it made it even harder. They did their best to run

the country but some of it wasn't entirely their fault. Some of the scandals

were but also some weren't. All three went down in history and its over