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    Herbert Hoover One of the hardest time to be president was during the 1930s . Herbert Hoover was the president from 1929 to 1933 .Throughout his life he helped many people as much as he could . But was still blame for many of the problems in the great depression. Herbert Hoover faced many challenges before his presidency‚ during presidency‚ as well as after his presidency. Herbert Hoover was born in Iowa village in 1874 but he grew up in Oregon he enrolled in Stanford University he graduated as a mining

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    NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 2008 CAUSED THE GREAT RECESSION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE Roger Farmer Working Paper 17479 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17479 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 October 2011 This paper was prepared as a Plenary Address to the 17th International Conference in Economics and Finance‚ held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco‚ June 29th-July 1st 2011. I would like to thank the Society for Computational

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    What Was the Exact Cause Of The Great Depression? The United States Great Depression leads many people to believe different stories about what actually caused it. The Stock Market Crash in October of 1929 is often referred to as the beginning of the Great Depression‚ but did it actually cause it? The answer is that it was the spark that lit the flame of the Great Depression. The Great depression was a financial decline that started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. Its pinpoint was

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    The great depression was a tragic event that lasted ten long years. It caused farmers to lose their farms and many people to become homeless. Although the great depression was a big part of history‚ I personally think it could have been prevented. All the wide ranging issues that caused the great depression were actions made by people. Stock speculation and mass selling‚ government policy decisions and income stratification all played a part in causing the great depression. What caused The Great

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    1929; American society must face its greatest and harshest advisory‚ the Great Depression. At the same time it makes you wonder on how the American Politics‚ Economic and Society were driven to the ground; but when you look at the Great Depression itself‚ you will see that were numerous amounts of problems that caused the Great Depression. Even though there were numerous problems that were able to trigger the Great Depression; there are four main causes‚ which are the: stock market crashed‚ bank failure

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    The Great Depression was a horrible thing people went through in the 30`s. people starved‚ it put at least 12 million people out of work‚ and put nearly 60% of Americans into poverty. However‚ the Great Depression forever changed how people lived for over 40 years. One of the main things it prompted was penny pinchers. The Great Depression put at least 12 million people out of work‚ and put nearly 60% of Americans into poverty. When the stock market crashed‚ many people could not get the money out

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    The New Deal was a success for many different reasons. The Great Depression started from 1929 all the way through 1939. During the depression a great majority of American Families lost all their money in the banks and all the banks shut down from the stock market also crashing. Something had to be done to get American citizens back in the loop and The New Deal was a great fix for the Great Depression. A big problem during the Depression was businesses closing because of the lack of money. “The New

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    Social mobility during the Great Depression was extremely rigid. This means whatever class you were born in was the class you would stay in throughout your entire life. Some people saw this as a positive thing‚ mainly the upper class‚ but most people were devastated by this fact. Growing up‚ most people have dreams of being something bigger and better than their parents ever were. They want to make it big time‚ if their parents worked as a farmer or in a corner store for example‚ they would dream

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    The causes of the Great Depression of the 1920’s and 1930’s has been argued about for generations. Most people agree on several key topics and that it was the severity and length of time the Depression lasted that was actually the most remarkable. Hoover made many noteworthy attempts to try and solve this crisis‚ yet in the end it was President Roosevelt and his "New Deal"‚ that brought many Americans hope for the future. The first factor in the start of the Depression was the lack of diversity

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    The prosperity of the 1920s ended after the great stock market crash of 1929. During this time‚ families were losing their homes‚ companies were destroyed and bankrupt‚ and unemployment skyrocketed (Goldberg‚ ed. 7‚ The American Journey‚ 715). This was a hard time for many and the president at the time‚ Herbert Hoover‚ was taking on major blame and criticism from the American people. Herbert Hoover did not do a great job of cleaning up the mess that the stock market crash caused nor did he listen

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