When stock prices began to fall in the united states, how did americans react?

They didn't. Everyone believed that it was not a big deal and didn't want to back out of their investments. By the time they figured out that they will never get their investments back because the economy was crashing, it was already too late and suddenly millions of people ended up in poverty, which is basically how the Great Depression began.

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