encourage people to buy products in their own country NO!
What caused it?
(p. 352, para. 2 & 4; p. 353, para. 1-2)
Farmers lost land.
The American stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. Because the U.S. economy was connected to Europes, the crash affected Europeans and European banks. Banks, factories, farms, and people went bankrupt. This meant they had no more money.