The panic started when the stock market in Europe crashed and Investors began to sell off the investments they had in American projects, especially the railroads. railway companies had been borrowing money to build new rails through bonds which were debt securities. The Europeans started selling their railroad bonds, When there were soon more bonds for sale than anyone wanted and as a result, the railroad companies could no longer find anyone who would lend them cash and they went bankrupt. Jay Cooke & Company which was one of the biggest banks in New York City went bankrupt since it had invested a lot of money in the railroads. When people saw this they run to their banks demanding all of their money back.
Jay Cooke and Company closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation. Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil War<span>.
The Missouri Compromise kept the amount of slave states and free states balanced in America. However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act reapeled the Missouri Comp. because it allowed the states to decided if they wanted to be slave or free based on popular sovereignty.
The best response would be something that is not on this list: "feudalism," although if you must pick from these options it would be "<span>Manorialism," since this is a subcategory of feudal society. </span>
