The Roaring Twenties could not last forever of course. The first tremors of what would come occurred in March of 1929 when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. It was not a large crash, and it was halted when the National City Bank offered credit to those on the fence. But for perhaps the first time people realized that the economy was on shaky ground. And with new tariffs being discussed in the US House, many worried what the future had in store.