causes of the great depression 1.overproduction of agricultural and industrial goods 2.excess...
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Causes of the Great Depression1. Overproduction of agricultural and industrial goods
2. Excess Consumerism
3. Expansion of Credit
4. Financial Speculation/Buying on Margin
5. Rising Unemployment
6. Agricultural crop failures
7. Tariff Barriers/Hawley-Smoot
8. Laissez Faire Policy
9. Stock Market Crash
1. High Unemployment/widespread poverty/worldwide
2. Business failure/bankruptcy/foreclosure
3. Hoovervilles
4. Bonus Army
5. Democratic Victory in 1932
6. Migration
7. Excess inventory/decrease in production/decrease in price level
8. Religious Revivalism
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Representative W.C. Hawley, and Senator Reed Smoot shake hands in agreement on new tariff bill Senator Reed Smoot shake hands in agreement on new tariff bill
A great national migration began. Displaced Americans took to the highway with the last
possession they had with them, their automobile.
May 2005 map of TVA sites; Key: red: dam purple: nuclear orange: fossil
2. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)