People were putting money in the stock market (the problem was that it was often money that they were loaned)
Freemasons were the members of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons that is a worldwide secret society.
Many of the founding fathers were freemasons, like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Marshall. So nine of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence were Masons and 13 of the 39 that signed the US Constitution were also masons.
<span>provoked by a treaty-violating ultimatum to surrender their sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa), where an expedition under Custer discovered gold in 1874. In June 1876, driven by converging army columns, a unique concentration of Sioux and Cheyenne/Arapaho in southern Montana first repulsed a 1, 000-man column under Crook at the Rosebud and then destroyed Custer's command at Little Bighorn. </span>
