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What were the causes and consequences of the Great Depression? What is the 21st-century interpretation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt leadership during the Great Depression?

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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.

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