Edited sentence: A ‘bank holiday’ is when a bank temporarily closes because it does not have the money to perform everyday distribution.After the Great Depression, many Americans rushed to their specific bank(s) in order to redeem their savings when the stock market crashed.Because banks only keep enough money for normal distribution, they did not have enough money to supply the Americans who were trying to take out their savings before everyone else.Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a national bank holiday in March of 1933 so Americans would not panic when they couldn’t get their money from the banks.In conclusion, the national bank holiday was a ploy of FDR’s to reassure the American public.It was reassuring to the Americans because they assumed that the banks would re-open with their money.The reason FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) declared a national bank holiday and not closure, is because he did not want Americans to panic.This occurred throughout the United States of America because that is how widespread the Great Depression managed to affect Americans.‘Holiday’ sounds much less serious than closing all the banks