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    The Great Depression is not so great The Great Depression had a huge impact to many people in many different ways during the 1920s. Farmers were majorly impacted and it took a toll on the agricultural industry. It all started on October 28, 1929 due to the Stock Market Crash. It lasted 10 long years and greatly impacted our country. Farmers were the first to be impacted which then affected businesses and the wealthy. People lost of money and struggling to survive. Many Americans were affected…

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    Crash? In 2008 the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was affecting millions of Americans and was one of the hottest topics in the Presidential campaigns. In fact, people cannot understand clearly the reasons why we have a financial crisis. What led us to the crash? Let’s discuss about how bank caused the financial crisis. Looking back on the history, after the Depression of 1920-21, the United States embarked on a period of economic…

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    The Great Depression was the period of economic failure in US. It led to unemployment, poverty and failure of investment. The Great Depression affected everyone from the highest bosses to the lowest factory workers. It also affected trade thus it affected the Global Economy. The period began after the stock market crash of 1929; this destroyed millions of investors. Consumer spending went down thus industrial output went down as well. Industries failure meant that people were laid off and…

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    would help all of society? Well Franklin D. Roosevelt did for that exact reason. This deal was called the New Deal and it was created in 1933 and lasted until 1935. It was created to help society after the Great Depression. In the year 1929, the U.S. stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins. In 1931, over 8 million Americans are unemployed. Many people thought it went too far, and others thought that the New Deal did not go far enough. The overall question that is being asked is,…

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    Great Depression Do you think that today's work is difficult? During the Great Depression it had left several effects on the people. This left many citizens in multiple situations. The people were left with not enough money, having to leave their materials behind, including having no job. For starters, the people were left with not enough money. According to the memoir “Digging In,” it stated “At one point in the Great Depression, the cupboard was literally bare of money.” Which shows that…

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    that the economy falls badly, which is known as “The Great Depression”. Although people know, but not many of them can tell what actually cause that and how bad it goes. In fact, the Great Depression is not initiated by one reason, it was touched off by multiple reasons. The resulting effect of Great Depression is unimaginable. People at that time suffered so much during the Great Depression. Asking citizens about the causes of Great Depression, most people will respond “the stock market”.…

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    that the great depression had a positive effect on the people who lived through it, but that isn’t the case in this situation. The great depression had a big, negative effect on the people who lived through it. The great depression was a big drought where many people lost their jobs, money, and many other things. The people in the great depression didn’t have many things, the mines closed, and the farmers crops were lost. First, the people didn’t have many things. The witnesses of the great…

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    Impact The Great Depression had on families The Great Depression impacted families in many ways, but not everyone felt the same impact like the wealthy almost felt no effect at all. But not everyone was this fortunate the unemployment in 1931 hover around 25%. One way The Great Depression affected families ‘’ The Depression changed the family in dramatic ways ‘’ The meaning of this is that many couples delayed marriage and the divorce rate dramatically shrink, the reason of this was…

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    United States was booming, and the technology innovation for the home appliances as television, receiving set, and more were for everyone. Everyone took a loan to buy the home appliances, and some people bought the bonds on the stock market. The Great Depression of the 1930s began in the "crash”, that is in the prostration of the values which occurs in the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street. The crisis is preceded by forerunners: in the United States, the real estate gets out of breath in…

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    During the time of the Great Depression America was facing a plethora of problems. The economy was at the point of collapse and a huge portion of the money was among a very small number of very wealthy individuals. People had resorted to living in villages called Hoovervilles where the houses were made up of whatever could be salvaged. Before the Great Depression began people took out loans carelessly without money to back it up; people were paid too little and goods cost too much. More goods…

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