Question:
What was one cause of the Great Depression?
Jordan McIntosh
2011-03-25 16:10:17 UTC
1. What was one cause of the Great Depression?

government's failure to act

a banking crisis

high tariffs overseas

limits on farm production



2. Which was a cause of the stock market crash in 1929?

Too few investors were willing to purchase a wide range of stocks.

Investors bought stocks on credit because they thought prices would continue rising.

Banks refused to lend investors the money they needed to keep buying stocks.

Too many investors tried to get in on buying the best stocks.



3. What happened in the farmland of the Great Plains in the 1930s?

Soybean crops were smaller than usual.

The government bought all the farms.

Strong winds and drought created a Dust Bowl.

Cotton farmers switched to farming barley.



4. What name was given to the plains farmers who migrated west during the 1930s?

Okies

Croppers

Dusters

Callies



5. People lost jobs and suffered from poverty and malnutrition during the Great Depression. What else happened?

There was a drop in the number of marriages and births.

More people began keeping journals.

More people applied for food stamps.

People defaulted on their income taxes.
Seven answers:
ammianus
2011-03-26 06:15:21 UTC
1: High tariffs overseas (and in the US too).

2: Investors bought stocks on credit because they thought prices would continue rising.

3: Strong winds and drought created a Dust Bowl.

4: Okies.

5: There was a drop in the number of marriages and births.
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solley
2016-10-27 12:02:21 UTC
2 words to initiate this off, herbert hoover. the great melancholy became no longer brought about at the same time as the marketplace crashed yet they were appropriate. both were brought about by using the topic matters construct up in 1920s. The 1920s were a era before the melancholy and after WWI, at the same time as the inventory marketplace and fiscal device boomed. The nationwide income jumped 40% to 87 billion. credit also grew to develop into wide-spread. human beings were instructed to purchase now and pay later. in the course of the Roaring 20s there turned right into a farm melancholy. Farmers produced more desirable food for WWI, yet at the same time as the conflict ended there turned right into a lot less choose for the products. prices of farm products fell 40%. The farm melancholy led as a lot because the great melancholy. at the same time as the farmers went broke, they could no longer pay their mortgages. they had to employ farms and pass. Banks also began to pass bankrupt in the course of the 1920s. The banks went broke because the farmers were no longer doing nicely. about 550 banks went broke in a twelve months as a results of farm mess ups. yet another clarification for the melancholy became that no longer absolutely everyone were given richer in the course of the Roaring 20s. the wealthy in basic terms were given richer and the undesirable in basic terms kept getting poorer. the agencies were doing nicely. So, the wealthy those who owned them were given wealthier. the employees pay did not strengthen a lot. they did no longer arise with the money for for each of the products they wanted. So, they offered on credit. quickly their human beings offered a lot less because they were in debt. With a lot less and a lot less human beings spending money, agencies went broke.
Martell
2011-03-25 18:02:59 UTC
Good Grief~ you're asking for a volume! I wanted to Ans this, and won't expect pts., but I was born in 1929, when the Crash came! I think that may have been started by great speculation on the stock market. (I don't think that they had the regulation then that we have now.) Over-speculation, over-spending, and just plain Over-the-Top-Everything! The market crashed; there were no jobs or work available, and just plain no money! I think that it was 20% unemployment! My Dad got a job in a Greenhouse, working 6 days/wk, from dawn to dark, and was paid $7 dollars/wk. Nobody had cars except the very rich, and everybody walked-----to town, to the grocery store, etc., to church. We grew all of our vegetables; raised chickens for meat; and Dad got a nanny goat for its nutritious milk for me. He tried raising rabbits for meat, but never had the heart to kill them! So he gave them to our neighbors, and they ate them. We lived two blocks down from the railroad tracks, and Hobos--men with no jobs and maybe no homes, would jump off the freight cars and come down our alleyways. They'd never come into our yard, but would call, "Is the Lady of the house in?" Mom would always bring whatever extra food she had to give them. There was never any stealing, and in those days, nobdoy ever locked their doors. I think that the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, started pulling us our of the Depression. People moved out to the West Coast to the new ship-building industry that was really growing to meet the demands of this new war.
Scatter the monkey
2011-03-25 19:14:44 UTC
Read "Freedom From Fear" by David M. Kennedy. All your questions will be answered.
Captain Stabbin
2011-03-25 16:13:54 UTC
Prohibition.
Cogito, ergo Deus non est
2011-03-25 16:11:36 UTC
Do your own homework. I bet the answers are in your textbook.


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