By Bailey Mills & Katy Flanigan Period 3 Moroz May 2011
Economic downfall The longest & most severe depression ever experienced by Western World
Stock market prices dropped in New York Exchange In stock market prices dropped over 20% of value since 1929 By ,000 of 25,000 US Banks failed Failed banks + loss of confidence in US economy = less spending, demand, production
Between 12-15% in the beginning By 1933 it was 25% 37% of all nonfarm workers People did anything to earn money for their families
Elected in 1932 as US President Promised a “New Deal” to reduce unemployment Kept US economy from totally crashing
A family during the Great Depression The Great Depression began around 1929 were the worst economic years It finally “ended” around 1939
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