During the Victorian Era, the middle class wasn't very large. The middle class consisted of shopkeepers, merchants, clerks, businessmen, bankers, doctors, and etc. Many people in the middle class could make on average 100-5,000
People also referred to the higher class who had commodity’s as the Bourgiuse
Free land (well they had to pay like 10 cents), and gold (the gold rush).
Faced with financial ruin, some investors actually committed suicide, believing that they would never be able to escape from their debts. This quick and precipitous decline in stocks' value in October 1929 became known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929. This event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
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