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Great Deppresion

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GREAT DEPRESSION

BY ALEC
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Who Are Important?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mary McLeod Bethune

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What happend?
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.

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When
1929–1939

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Where
Economic historians usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday; some dispute this conclusion, and see the stock crash as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the Great Depression.

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Why
Stock Market Crash of 1929

Bank Failures

Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board

American Economic Policy with Europe

Drought Conditions

Alec Tuttle