On a cold mountain morning in the early 1930’s, a young American school girl did not look fittingly. Her teacher approached her desk and implored her to go home to get food in her system. “I can’t,” implied the little, “It’s my sister’s turn to eat.” This demonstrates the dark side of America in the 1930s. Between 1929-1940’s were the years that the U.S. experienced its longest and deepest fall.What caused the Great Depression? Although there were several factors that came together to cause the Great Depression, the three main causes were stock market, low income, and the business cycle. The first main cause of the Great Depression was stock marketing. This is one of the causes that brought the Great Depression because people would invest
