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I’m writing a US History DBQ. The prompt is “To what extent did the Great Depression impact the United States?”. I’m thinking of using these points: 1. First Paragraph: Social, cultural, and political

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I’m writing a US History DBQ. The prompt is “To what extent did the Great Depression impact the United States?”.

I’m thinking of using these points:

1. First Paragraph: Social, cultural, and political impacts (African American unemployment rates, rise of political groups, repatriation (discrimination and deportation of Mexicans/Mexican-Americans). + How some of these effects (e.g social - migration) were intensified by the Dust Bowl in the Midwest and the Southern Plains.

2. Second Paragraph: Financial and economic impacts (how the stock market crash led to soaring unemployment rates, poverty, soup kitchen, etc).

3. Third paragraph: How FDR’s New Deal programs contributed to ending the Great Depression.

So my question is: Is this essay structured correctly? And would explaining (and providing the evidence for) the impacts mentioned above answer the prompt?

Thank you :)