During the early part of the Great Depression, the economy had ground to a halt as a result of the stock market crashing and the unemployment rates skyrocketed as businesses shut down. ... The cause of the Great Depression was really a result of shallow economical prosperity. ... Low prices, suppressed wages and production material prices, and lopsided distribution of income all influenced the spiraling effect of the Great Depression. ... An increase in credit flexibility might have helped reduce some of the dramatic effects of the stock market crash. ... The gravity of the Great depression ca...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... He accomplished this by focusing on the policies and their effects not on the motives of the policy makers. ... He contends that until the Great Society is converted into a Great Community the public will remain a formless and an incoherent body of citizens. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 t...

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THE NEW DEAL'S EFFECTS ON SOUTH CAROLINA In the presidential election of 1932, the American people were looking for a change and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Roosevelt promised to act to end the Great Depression. He urged programs to deal with what he referred to as the "forgotten man- during the depression. ... The New Deal had both positive and negative effects on South Carolina. ...

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