Causes Of The Great Depression

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Bad things have happened in life time but, the worse was the great depression. It all started in October 29 1929, people lost their homes, money, jobs, food supply, and other things. They ended up selling their children or whatever they had just to get money or even food. The reason for that was because of the bank failure and the market stock crashing. Everybody became shaken and sad about it. People ended up leaving their homes because they couldn’t afford enough for the electric and water bill, everyone became homeless. When the bank failure started everyone lost their jobs and couldn’t support their families at the time. Some people were so fed up with the great depression they ended up committing suicide because they can’t support their

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