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Especially severe was a collapse in the 1890s, known as the Panic of 1893. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. Hundreds of ba

The Panic Of 1893: An Early ‘Occupy’ Episode

Photos: NorthwesternEdu The terrible Great Depression of the 1930s wasn’t America’s only economic crash. Various lesser ones happened through the 1800s, almost in a ...