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1.Was the 1929 stock market crash the cause of the Depression? Why or why not

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No The stock market crash was most likely a serious contributory factor in the onset of the Great Depression. However it did not effectively cause the economy to implode there were serious pre-existing weakness in the late 1920s economy.
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Yes it was, because everyone lost their jobs and weren't able to access the money in their accounts. So everyone became poor

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