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    The Great Depression began after the stock market crash but was not the result of the stock market crash. The stock market crash is not equivalent to the Great Depression. During the Great Depression there was a massive unemployment rate, hardships but this didn’t occur until 1930-1931. The causes that contributed towards the Great Depression were America’s weak banking system, the Federal Reserve, and the Hoover Administration. Majority of the banking systems were small and individual…

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    The Great Depression was not caused by one lone factor. Instead, the Great Depression was caused by a combination of domestic and worldwide conditions. One reason the Great Depression was started was the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Another reason was the bank failures that happened because of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. There are also other reasons the great depression occurred. The reduction in purchases, and the American economic policy with Europe. As said above, The Stock Market Crash of…

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    The great depression was a big crash in the stock market. The great depression was from 1929-1939 it was was the biggest and longest economic downfall of all time. The great depression started right before a crash of in the stock market. Many people got laid off from jobs the banks started to go back rupt and from there it was just a domino effect peoples started losing their home because mortgage or rents wasn 't being paid and people were losing jobs and was hardly living. In fact 7 million…

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    The Great Depression was an extreme time of struggle for not only the economy of America, but also the American people of every race. The Great Depression took place from 1929- 1939. One of the main reasons of what led to the Great Depression was the crash of the stock market. The crash itself propelled and drove Wall Street workers straight into a major fear and nightmare that was thought and imagined to never come. Throughout the years that came “Consumer spending and investment dropped,…

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    section that happened to catch my attention is titled “The Great Depression,” which is found in chapter eleven. Although I have heard of this point in history many times before, I cannot claim to have a large breadth of knowledge on what the specific events the Great Depression entailed. In general, I predict that this section will describe the specific causes and effects of the Great Depression. In my understanding, the Great Depression occurred not too long after the Roaring Twenties. To say…

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    Causes of the Depression Public confidence was generally high in Canada during the last years of the 1920s, and many Canadians were optimistic. However, the uncertain prosperity of the Roaring Twenties was coming to an end. A dramatic signal of the approaching end took place in October 1929. On October 24, thousands of speculators lost money in a sudden stock market tumble on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Five days later, the New York stock market crashed. Too many people had bought stocks…

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    prosperity did come to a tragic end. October 29,1929 marks the start of the period that the greed of the people in the 1920s, especially the top 1%, created the worst economic depression in history, the Great Depression. The Great Depression is one of the most important time periods…

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    The period of the great depression is one of the most trying socioeconomic challenges ever experienced in the United States. The crashing of the stock market, the failure of numerous banks, and massive loss of jobs marked the Great Depression. During this period, many Americans struggled to meet their daily needs and it often became common to see American citizens begging for food and money in the streets. The Great Depression had a significant impact on the lives of the majority of Americans…

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    The Causes of the Great Depression Though there were numerous causes of the Great Depression, there’s not only one origin of this decade long depression.One cause is bank failures which created a major domino effect. Another cause was Black Tuesday that affected billions. Lastly, a cause of the Great Depression was the Dust bowl that creates another chain reaction.There were many more causes, but these are a few that stood out. Black Tuesday occurred in 1929 when all the stocks crashed. This…

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    The Great Depression was a stretch where people were trying to locate an employment, and food to exist another day. People families were broken, and bank accounts gone wrong, and most of all it-helped America get to the top. In the beginning of the Great Depression, there are multiple reasons for the cause, but there is one thing that is certain and it is how it drastically affected communities in America, and how America overcame the depression. The first point is how the depression started,…

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