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The Great Depression began in October 1929, when the stock market in the United States dropped rapidly. Thousands of investors lost great deal of money and many were wiped out, lost everything. The decline caused the Great Depression. In the period longest and worst period of high unemployment and low business activity took place. Banks, stores, and factories were closed and left millions of people jobless and homeless. Many people came to depend on the government or charity to provide them with food.

The Great Depression did not begin in 1929 with the fall of the over inflated stock market. In fact the Depression began ten years earlier in Europe. As the depression raged on in Europe American's believed they would be immune to its effects. As a result American polices never addressed the possibility of the United States entering a depression as well.

The early warning signs first came in the agricultural sector. Farmers continued to produce more and more food due to......

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