Wall Street: THE BEGINNING

How did a short street at the tip of Manhattan become the center of the financial world? In Part 1 of our Wall Street series, we go back to the very beginning: a wooden wall built by Dutch settlers, Alexander Hamilton's fight over America's debts, the first financial panic of 1792 and the Buttonwood Agreement, signed by 24 brokers under a tree. From coffeehouse trading and the Erie Canal to the railroads and the Civil War, this is how a small gathering of brokers grew into a system that would shape a nation. 📺 Watch the full series: Part 1 — The Beginning (you are here) Part 2 — The Rise [   • Wall street: THE RISE  ] Part 3 — The Crash [   • Wall street: THE CRASH  ] Part 4 — The Legacy: coming soon TIMECODES 0:00 A Quiet Morning on Wall Street 1:05 Before the Glass Towers 1:45 The Problem Wall Street Was Born to Solve 2:38 Ships, Risk and Shared Investment 3:27 New York’s Harbor and the Dutch Wall 4:15 The Slave Market and the Cotton Trade 4:58 Hamilton and the National Debt 7:12 The First Panic: William Duer, 1792 8:16 The Buttonwood Agreement 10:21 First Banks and the Tontine Coffee House 11:43 The 1817 Constitution 12:34 Stocks, Bonds and the Modern Corporation 13:27 Booms and the Panics of 1819 and 1837 14:57 The Erie Canal and the Railroads 16:21 The Civil War and the New York Stock Exchange 18:03 Who Controls the Money? #WallStreet #History #StockMarket