Which statement explains why "excessive use of credit" was a cause of the Great Depression?

1) Borrowing money based on the belief that default was an option led people to lie on loan applications.
2) Throughout the 1920s, warning signs of economic collapse made people reluctant to pay cash.
3) Borrowing money based on a belief that the economy would expand led people to take financial risks.
4) Throughout the 1920s, most of the population borrowed money to invest in the stock market.

the answer is c my brotha. c.   formed an alliance with the soviet union.

general allotment act (dawes act) february 8, 1887

amendment to the dawes act, february 28, 1891

commission to the five civilized tribes (dawes commission), march 3, 1893

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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