The Great Depression began in 1929, when the stock market in the United States dropped rapidly. ... Although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in production, severe unemployment, and heightened deflation in almost every country of the world. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the United States, where the Great Depression represented the harshest of misfortunes faced by Americans since the Civil War. ... Roosevelt worked on this program immediately after his election; this deal had an exceptional number of reform...

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During the 1930's, the major effect of the Great Depression resulted in the New Deal. ... Both Herbert Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt envisioned different roles the government should play. ... He asserted that he cared for common Americans too much to destroy the country's foundations with deficits and socialist institutions. ... The New Deal also attempted to reform the mistakes that had led to the great depression. ... However, the new deal promoted the government to intervene with everyday social and economic lives of the people. ...

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In years directly after the Great Depression, a majority of the population was left broke and desperate for work. ... The reason this laborer wrote to the Secretary of Labor, is because he hopes that it will bring attention to FDR that improving working conditions are just as important as fixing unemployment, which almost reached 30% during the Great Depression. ... Hoover also states that FDR's "spoils system" and "emotional economics" will ultimately lead to "a mixture of European ideas, flavored with our native predilection to get something for nothing" (I...

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With each system came rapid and fundamental changes punctuated by party realignment. ... Finally, the Great Depression marked the fifth party system. The Great Depression was caused by a stock market crash, causing the majority of working class people into poverty. ... Seeking economic reform, the nation rejected incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover, and elected Democratic candidate Franklin D. ... Due to great conflict about certain issues faced by the nation or economic standing the American two-party system is constantly changing with power and dominance swaying back and forth ...

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After the United States had plummeted into the greatest depression to face this country while Herbert Hoover lead the country, many voters were looking for anyone with a promising plan and a bright outlook. As banks closed and unemployment rates soared, Roosevelt promised a balanced budget, and spoke of Hoover's rash and excessive spending. ... In one of the areas in America hit hardest by the Depression, the Tennessee River Valley, an act named after the valley was formed to create a "planned economy." ... This act has outlasted the New Deal Administration and the Great Depression, and r...

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By 1934, the United States, along with the rest of the world, had been experiencing severe economic depression for almost five years. In the United States, the Great Depression seemed to many to signify the failure of capitalism. ... Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency and on a proposal for solving the economic problems of the Great Depression called the "New Deal." ... Long's approach to resolving the issues of the Great Depression, called "Share Our Wealth" clubs, was the establishment of upper and lower limits on personal wealth. ... Long's plan flirted with the concep...

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