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    The Great Depression The Great Depression is a time that brought great devastation not just in America alone‚ but the whole world had gone through such a horrible time in all societies. Not all of these countries had the worst effects from the Great Depression. Some countries had a relatively mild Great Depression‚ it was severe in others. Even though in the United States were not as severe they did have many deaths from people starving‚ also people from lost their farms and homes. There were people

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    woman refused to back down to the white standard. This defiance set in motion the start of a movement fighting against segregation policies and inequality happening everywhere and the lack of support service available to African-Americans (Chernus 2013; Erwitt 1950). In this essay‚ I will be demonstrating that Martin Luther King although a great man‚ was not central to the civil rights movement. In saying that‚ I acknowledge that although Martin Luther King Jr was a great man who did contribute to

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    Several things caused the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a rough time in American history that started in 1929‚ when the stock market crashed‚ and it ended in 1939. During the Great Depression‚ around 6‚000 vendors roamed the streets‚ in their effort to sell apples for $0.05. The crash of the stock market is one factor of the Great Depression. On a day known as "Black Thursday"‚ around 13 million shares were traded. Five days later‚ over 16 million shares were traded‚ which caused millions

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    The Great Depression was the worst period of money drought of all time. The Great Depression changed lives through jobs‚ health‚ and living conditions. The stock market crash took people into a bad world with no jobs what so ever. So what caused the stock market crash was when all the banks failed. When the banks went down almost everyone lost their jobs‚ they lost everything (history.com) . No one knew what to do since they had no money. They had no way to pay the people to work so they just

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    The Great Depression was the greatest economic collapse in history.Before The Great Depression occurred‚ the citizens voted Herbert Hoover‚ a republican‚ to be the president. Hoover was elected right before the series of events leading to the Depression occurred. Herbert Hoover was so concerned about making a mistake that he rarely ever made any changes to help the economy. Many struggling families blamed Hoover for The Great Depression.There are many theories about what caused the depression but

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    The Great Depression was a really big historic event that happened in the 1929.In 1933 many people have lost their jobs and income workers reduced by 40%. On October 24‚ 1929 there was something called “Black Thursday” and that’s when the traders started to get 12 millions dollars a day. Over the next couple of days the stock prices fell about 23 %. So The effect of the Great Depression caused many people to suffer; it was a time period in which people faced tremendous challenges such as bank

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    It seems that I have found the biggest causes of the Great Depression. The causes appeared to have ranged from the stock market crashing‚ to the Smoot-Hawley tariff and many other reasons in between. The country was unprepared for something like this so no wonder this Depression was the worst in the history of terrible economic circumstances. The Stock Market Crash of March‚ 1929‚ was the start of the terrifying Depression. Investors traded 16 million dollars in shares on the New York stock exchange

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    The Great Depression was one of the hardest times for Americans and lasted for at least a decade‚ bringing hunger‚ poverty‚ and unemployment to millions of lives to a country which had been one of the richest and industrially advanced in the world. Before the 1930’s there was an economic boom‚ but in 1929‚ the economy of the country began to decline. On October 1929 the share values on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. The economic decline continued for several years with little signs of improvement

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    The Great Depression was a point of time in history where people thought everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Everyone was loosing their jobs‚ people were lining up in soup kitchens‚ and all the banks were running out of money. American was made up of immigrants‚ and those people had come to America to escape this kind of depression to have a better life. In the 1920’s people seriously believed that the stock market could go up and up forever. Also people were investing in things often

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    The Great Depression In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ the characters face many challenging problems. They face racism‚ learning about courage‚ and The Great Depression. In the opening chapter Scout states‚ “Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it… There was no hurry for there was no where to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people.

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