A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

The market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, which would shape American life for the following decade.

Anyone know the effects?" Stein’s character asks in a clip that has since been widely circulated on social media. "It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression." ...