The Great Depression
An economic recession that began on October 29, 1929, following the crash of the U.S. stock market that led to economic and political unrest.
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Arianna HarrisWWII and the US Economy From what I understand in my history classes, the war was one of the reasons the Great Depression...
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s...
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The major effect of the Great Depression and the New Deal on America was expanded government intervention into new areas of...
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The US government's reaction to its entry into WWII was to institute massive deficit spending, and the conscription of all able...
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The Great Depression The Great Depression occurred because people thought the banks were going under, and took their money out of...
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Of course, the depression which started in 1929 in the United States spread to nations all over the world, including Sweden. ...
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President Roosevelt tried to put in place many innovative and reforming "New Deal" programs in order to get the country out of...
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The great depression in the 1920's about the Utah farms being unable to pay the borrowed money from the bank therefore leading to...
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Governor Huey Long (The Kingfish-from a character on the radio show, Amos and Andy) from Louisiana gained some support for his...
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Jazz, and other types of music, was hit hard by the Depression. It quickly picked itself up and became a cheap form of...
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Too help stop the bank failures in the US during the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew...
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Exporeted goods to Spain
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In 1935, FDR convinced Congress to establish the Works Progress Administration, to broaden the approach of the CWA...
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I'm pretty sure a makeshift home is a home that is makeshift. In order words, a home that you built yourself, rather than one...
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Yes, buying on margin was made illegal buy the Trust-in-Sercurities Act before the Great Depression. This Act was one of the...
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One major one is the shot clock Also the three-point line.
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The Great Depression of the 1930's ended when the U.S entered World War II. Entering war helps get out of an economic depression...
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The Great Depression was probably the worst economic crisis to affect the whole world. It was at the end of the "Roaring...
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If you mean in America, banks contributed to the farmer's plight by demanding payment for the investments they made for the...
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The companies spent a lot on making goods that no one was buying. This meant all the money eventually got to people who supplied...
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Its Two of this four: the wealthy, minorities, unemployed, women
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Exclusive powers of the senate; To ratify treaties with a two thirds majority To confirm federal appointments To try cases...
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What makes you think that? If anything I think it hit them harder. And I'll add that if either Communism or Fascisim was...
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New Deal
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It didn't. Most black people were on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder making due with very little. A change in the...
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There isn't one single cause for the Great Depression. Many historians and economists believe many of F.D.R.'s policies led to...
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No, not common, but it did happen occasionally. In fact, it still happens, but very rarely.
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this event was devastating to many farmers across the plains states during the Great Depression.
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Asia was hit by the Great Depression due to its dependence on the export of raw materials with Europe and America, predominantly...
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No. It is lead to belive that the U.S. was too content. The Great Depression was not lead into because of the overindulgence of...
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Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the New Deal was to ease the economic hardship faced by many during the Great Depression....
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Created jobs for everyone.
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The Stock Market crashed, which started a domino effect, eventually spreading poverty, like the 2009 depression, it spread...
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The very first thing Hoover did in response to the 1929 crash was call business leaders to Washington to pressure them into...
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The Depression made the lives of tenant farmers considerably more difficult. Many of the farming families had sons in the...
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roosevelts approach to the great depression was that he was ready to experiment with governments actions to deal with the nations...
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The Public Works Administration was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. It was created to spend large sums...
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The movie industry
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The New DealDuring the 1920's, American was the richest country in the world and people flocked from all over Europe to live the...
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Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the New Deal was to ease the economic hardship faced by many during the Great Depression....
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prices of goods increased
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The National Recovery Administration (16 June 1933 was the date the National Industrial Recovery Act was passed by Congress and...
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The New Deal provided jobs for people who wouldn't have had them and improved the nation's infrastructure.
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a unstable economy
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If they had bought a very large amount of stock on margin (and many did) and the "margin call" came in shortly after that with...
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FDR had a program called the New Deal which involved what we would today call a stimulus program of public spending, but at the...
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The major effect of the Great Depression and the New Deal on America was expanded government intervention into new areas of...
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The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression have no connection. The dust bowl was a natural disaster caused by dirt of the topsoil and...
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Brain Trust referred to three Professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr., who aided FDR in setting...
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Reaction in both Congress and the nation at large was hostile. FDR's plan was considered to be tampering with the Constitution...
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Americans came together, scavenged for food and tried to rebuild their lives.
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The Great Depression It began in the wake of the stock market crash of October 1929 and lasted until at least 1933. The end...
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entry into WWII
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Hoover was blamed a lot for it because he was president when it happened, but it was a building thing that grew over like a...
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Because the white people didn't like the black people and they didn't want them.
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I am currently writing a research paper on John Steinbeck and his common themes and settings and I believe that Salinas Valley...
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no the wheat crop crash was in 1928, the dust bowl happend in 1934
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The Republican Party was formed by Free Soilers who did not want slavery to spread into the western territories. They were not...
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they had to go work to support their parents/family..
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It made them lose money off of exporting food and stuff, Ireland was involved in WWI, otherwise known as the Great War, they...
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A time of amazingly bad poverty. Jobs were hard to come by, even for the most exceptionally well trained. The value of the dollar...
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A teenager mind is starting to develop at this age again. They don't think as clear and think everything matters at this time in...
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The farm policy of FDR was enacted as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 1936....
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Cwa stands for clean water act
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The 1920s was called various names such as "The Jazz Age," the Age of Intolerance," and the "Age of Nonsense."
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Herbert Hoover tried to fix the Great Depression, although he was a little too late. Some of the projects he tried was the...
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The Great Depression (1929-1940) was a worldwide economic contraction which brought about economic hardship and in some nations,...
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The Great Depression of the 1930s led to dire circumstances for a large share of American households. Contemporaries worried that...
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Francis Townsend.
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Opposition to the New DealMany fiscal conservatives attacked the New Deal policies because of the tremendous cost. Others felt...
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What led to the Great Depression was the lack of consumer demand, which caused overproduction. When people stopped buying things,...
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In 1932 almost 1 out of 4 Britain was out of work. Many were on the dole (government relief for the unemployed). Another Answer:...
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It really isn't. So many safeguards have been put in place to prevent such a meltdown, it really cannot happen. That isn't to say...
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è Singapore depended largely on entrepot trade for its growthè With lack of trading activities, companies in Singapore had much...
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Organized labor grew during the Depression.The CIO split from the AFL and many American workers joined unions and membership...
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The Great Depression was a time starting around 1929 and lasting as long as the 1930's and into 1940 in some countries. It was a...
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It was a real tragic time in our history. It also redefined how our government looks at large economic problems! Hope it helps!...
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Baseball suffered like most industries during the Depression. Most teams lost money as total attendance dropped from 10.1 million...
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It actually lasted from 1934 to 1940 in the united states sure some states saw it end earlier but its official end of it all was...
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The Great Depression was worldwide (global), but some countries were affected more severely, and for much longer, than others....
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Farming in America suffered from the Great Depression as perhaps no other line of work, and its effects imnpacted the rest of the...
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Quite simply, patronage is some form of support, usually money and/or resources, from someone with more money than you who likes...
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The Great Depression Ended because of WWII though Franklin D. Roosevelt's New deal program helped American Citizens it was not...
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I believe that there soup kitchens. Although they were few and far between. Here is some trivia...Did you know that Al Capone...
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At the very height of the Great Depression (1930-33) hardly any businesses did really well, and success was relative. As usual...
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Well that started FDI banks in case of anthor market crash FDIC stands for "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation", which...
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probably more info than you need but here ya go kiddo. January-March January 31 - United States orders all Native Americans...
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The Great Depression, which began in the United States when the stock market crashed in 1929, profoundly affected the German...
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The Wall Street stock market crash in 1929 led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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For better knowledge you also need to know what happened to lead up to the Great Depression: Great Depression in the U.S. The...
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The Great Depression started in about 1929, official start date of it considered as Black Tuesday on October 29, 1929.
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