In 1929, a drastic event caused millions to fall into a depression; the Great Depression. The stock market crashed and brought the prosperities of the 1920s to a symbolic end. During the Great Depression, unemployment soared, international trade plunged, and investment fell. ... During the Great Depression, community played a significant role within America. ... During the Great Depression, all Americans had left were each other. ...

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President Herbert Hoover was the president in office at the time of the stock market crash and the start of the Great Depression. ... Many people blamed him for the Great Depression being as severe as it was. ... President Hoover's lack of ability to solve the Great Depression lead to him not being elected for a second term. ... In order to do this, Roosevelt enacted a slew of new economic legislation to combat the depression called the New Deal. ... There were many reasons that the Roaring 20's fell to become the Great Depression. ...

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During the 1930's, the major effect of the Great Depression resulted in the New Deal. ... The stock market crashed on Thursday, October 24, 1929, less than eight months into Herbert Hoover's presidency. As the Depression became worse, calls grew for increased federal intervention and spending due to the rise of the unemployed and drop of income, tax revenue, profits and prices as well as international trade. ... " He argued that the stock market had crashed in 1929 simply due to the fact that the "administration ha[d] not recognized that interrelationship existed at all.......

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New Deal America The stock market crash of 1929 helped launch the United States and many other nations into the worst economic depression in history. ... All aspects of American society suffered during the Great Depression. ... There was no security for the millions who lost all of their savings in the bank failure or stock market crash. ... Americans had never seen such a severe depression. ... The SEC functioned in regulating the stock and bond markets. ...

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After the Wall Street stock market crashed in 1929, the USA met with the greatest economic crisis that it had ever encountered. ... (Hardman, "The great depression and the new deal.... Roosevelt's plan did contribute to the recovery of the USA market and economy. ... The Great Depression was not only the depression for the USA economy, but also the depression for people's mood. ... Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression helped the USA get through the depression effectively. ...

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After WW1, the United States suffered from a Great Depression. The Great Depression took place due to several factors, one of these is the stock market crash on October 24th, 1929, after people began to sell their stocks. ... The new deals purpose was to completely reverse the effects of the Great Depression. ... He wanted to relieve people from suffering, create reforms so that the great depression will never happen again and to recover the economy. ... At the point when the share trading system encountered a colossal drop in 1987 (in a few regards a more awful collapse than that of 1929), th...

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The Great Depression started soon after the crash of the stock market in October 1929. This was the longest economic downturn in history (The Great Depression). ... Before the stock market crash the United States did not have a system like social security except for war veterans (The Great Depression). ... Giving that there were some Americans against the act, something had to be done in a national crisis such as The Great Depression. ...

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FDR's domestic policy, known more widely as the New Deal, was intended to be a group of innovative measures to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. ... Though providing quick relief to some areas of depression, the New Deal was overall a very socialist, perhaps even communist plan. ... Also, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which set guidelines for the stock market to prevent speculation like that that led to the Great Depression. ... WWII would have brought the country out of the depression regardless of any policy Congress took towards it. ...

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The New Deal did not "solve" the Great Depression. ... World War II really put an end to the depression. ... The Great Depression. ... The SEC's (Securities & Exchange Commission) purpose was to monitor stock market activity and ensure that the marketers were dealing honestly. This would hopefully prevent another Stock Market Crash. ...

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After the disastrous Great Depression struck in 1929, the country was in frantic need of a leader who would stabilize the economy and improve the declining situations of the U.S public. ... Finally, the New Deal system began to reform the business and industrial world from which the Great Depression was born. ... These committees had responsibilities ranging from regulating the stability of banks and ensuring the money of American civilians to granting loans and regulating the stock market. ... His New deal was what the nation needed to overcome the Great Depression and become a true world pow...

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The poor distribution of wealth was such that wagers could not keep up with the market. ... As a result of the combination of all this, the stock market came to a devastating crash in October of 1929. ... John Maynard Keynes believed that it is the governments responsibility to interfere in the free market, and they should participate. If America had this kind of economic system, maybe there would have never been the great depression. ... There was a need to enact reform to prevent this depression from ever happening again. ...

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One of the worst economic struggles in the history of the United States was the Great Depression. There were depressions before and after, but none of the same caliber. ... Since the Roaring Twenties, a time of drastic change in outward appearances, and the Great Depression preceded the New Deal, it can be difficult to argue that the New Deal caused America to be more liberal socially. ... Continuing with his liberal adjustments, FDR created the Securities Exchange Commission that helped to regulate the stock market, in the hopes of preventing another crash. ...

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The Townsend Movement and Social Security: In the early 1930's a man fed up with the great depression came up with and idea to get the county back on track. ... With the fall in the stock market most everybody lost their money and were now on the streets because they lost their jobs. ... This idea would make the country also come back on track and out of the depression. ... But in the end the only thing that could get the county out of the depression was World War II....

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During the great depression, poverty was at an all time low and the people of the US required the assistance of the federal government. ... Out of the poverty of the public during the depression, Medicare was introduced as a part of Social Security. ... If a stock market crash occurs your retirement money would go down the drain. ...

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The social Security started as an anti-poverty program created to alleviate the impact of the great Depression during the 1930s. ... Clinton originally idea was to invest part of the revenues of the program in the stock market. ... An independent board would supposedly make sure that decisions were not made on a political basis but with this much money to play with; the government could hardly fail to distort capital markets (2Facts 2). ...

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One of those problems was the great depression. ... Some Americans saw the New Deal as a way to rebuild America's economy and government after the depression. ... Many People in America during the time of the Great Depression had a strong opinion on the New deal. ... Document J is a graphic that shows how the unemployment rate skyrocketed during the Great depression, but it also shows how it dropped after the New Deal was put into effect. ... Also the SEC was established, which regulated the stock market. ...

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