Question

In a two paragraph essay, you will identify and discuss the causes and resolutions to the great depression.

In the first paragraph, identify the causes of the great depression and how it affected people.

In the second paragraph, determine how effective the policies of herbert hoover and franklin roosevelt were, with at least two examples, in addressing the great depression.

Answer 1

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.