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    What caused the The Great Depression was a time of economic failure for the US. All of this was a domino effect. In the first 10 months of 1930 the banks crashed. In 10 months 744 banks crashed. But in all 9‚000 banks crashed in the 30’s .Because of bank failure $140 billion was lost. Because of the bank loss the loans were hard to get.The Great Depression was a time of job loss‚debt‚and bank failure Alot of american household were in debt.Mainly in property debt.They

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    Many economist and historians support the idea that the main cause of the Great Depression was World War I‚ but there were other actions that triggered the collapse. Consequently‚ the war hurt every country economically. The author of “The Great Depression‚” David M. Kennedy‚ supports the fact that World War I hurt the “core societies of the advanced industrialized world” (Kennedy 1). The Treaty of Versailles‚ the document which ended the war‚ imposed harsh consequences towards the villains of the

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    very known professional photographer‚ during the Great Depression and even after that. She documented the struggle of migrant farm families. Lange photographed the pain and despair of women‚ men‚ and children living in dirty‚ miserable camps. She also photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco (Migrants). Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist‚ best known for her Depression-era work for the FSA or the Farm Security Administration

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    Martin Kelly explains in this article‚ “Top 5 Causes of The Great Depression” that “the drought that occurred in the Mississippi Valley in 1930 was of such proportions that many could not even pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves.” During this time‚ the government did little to help small business owners or farmers. To add more factors leading into the problems that caused the depression‚ Calvin Coolidge‚ the president at the time‚ was not helping

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    time that negatively affected the people. This time period is know as the Great Depression. There were many causes leading up to Great Depression. Such as a new system for buying and selling known as the stock market. In the beginning this seemed like a good thing to the people of the Americas. But soon after it had a devastating effect on the economy that can still be seen in the economy of America today. In this first days of this new system known as the Stock Market. Many people went to the

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    Patrick crane Lewis 5 People during The Great Depression Seven million people died during The Great Depression due to starvation. Many of those that did survive did so due to the goodwill of others. If they didn”t find the support of others‚ they often died or experienced very unpleasant lifestyles. The unemployment rate was 24 percent and many people didn’t have a lot of money which meant they could not afford to feed their families‚ so their kids often left home to find work. Because

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    Have you ever wondered why the roaring 20s turned into the depressing 30s? The Great Depression was major plot twist in the economic world. It affected society‚ it also made many scratch their heads and caused different nation to reshape themselves. This whole thing started after shattering of Stock Market. Before the Stock Market‚ the 1920s was expecting a high graph for economic growth but‚ when this show happened so many people began to struggle to create money to survive also people began to

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    The depression while Herbert Hoover was president drove America into something they have never experienced before. For the first time‚ Americans experienced a lack or resources and money and they did not know how to help themselves. Hoover stated: “...Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement…”[1] Hoover believed that the American people should be able to pull themselves out of a depression without the help of the government. People disagreed with Hoover’s

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    In 1929 a severe worldwide economic depression known as the "Great Depression" began. The Great Depression lasted until the late 1930s‚ early 1940s. The depression started in the U.S in September of 1929 with a decrease in the stock market that later collapsed on October 29‚ 1929. In the 1920’s the United States economy was great . Stocks were bought using credit without worry because values kept growing. In the 1920’s all investments did well. During this time period there were not government regulations

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    The Great Depression Overview The Great Depression was the deepest economic downturn of the Western industrialised world and last for ten years. It occurred on 1929 to 1939‚ beginning with the collapse of the New York Stock Market on Wall Street. Due to the decline in economic activity‚ millions of people were in poverty and left 28% of the population in the US without an income. It mainly affected the middle class families rather than the rich class who were oblivious to the situation. Causes Before

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