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This 6 page paper (including a 2 page annotated bibliography) looks at the social and economic conditions the were faced by individuals living in the United States during this signally dark period in the economic history of the United States. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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File: TS14_TEgtdeps.doc
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into a very severe recession then it may be classed as a depression (Encyclop?dia Britannica, 1999). The Great Depression that occurred in the United States between 1929 and 1939 is
seen as the worst and longest depression ever to occurring in the industrialised world (Encyclop?dia Britannica, 1999). The Great depression had long reaching effect that families would feel not only
during the depression, but for many years afterwards (Watkins, 1995). There were many factors which worked together to influence the effects that the depression had both economical and socially,
for example the increase in the city populations lessened the amount of people who might be able to live of the land (Watkins, 1995), and at the same time increased
the density of the population in the cities so that social problems might be inflated. For example in Chicargo, one of the cities badly effected by the depression there was
an increased population of nearly 300% between 1880 and 1930 (Feldman, 2000). The economic conditions before and after the depression hit was one of an unsustainable economy and the effect
of a government having tried to sustain it (Nordeen, 2000). The start was in October 1929 when the stock market made a dramatic crash, we are all probably familiar with
the brokers jumping off of building ledges in the films, but the reality is not far removed from this, it was only a few weeks before that the stock market
had reached an all time high of 381 (Feldman, 2000). Now the stock market was down despite predictions that it had stabilised at a plateau and by 1932 the low
point was reached with an 89% drop in value to 41 (Feldman, 2000). The effect of this was that wealthy families became poor, and with less money at the top
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