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The Great Depression


These lifestyles and the using up of.
             their savings gave us what we refer to today as the roaring 20's. This could.
             only last so long before savings were depleted. When that happened credit.
             was established but between 1926 and 1927 people even used up all the.
             credit they could get to a point where no more was lent to them. People.
             stopped buying products even pushing companies even farther towards.
             poverty. Demand continued to fall within our own nation and again prices.
             dropped, supply dropped, and unemployment rose. One place that people.
             looked to make money in the midst of this was the stock market. Many.
             people already had money in the stock market already on the farms,.
             equipment and factories that had been in such great demand during the war.
             The value of these investments dropped along with the demand and because.
             of the faulty systems within the stock market. People poured money into the.
             stocks even while they dropped without understanding what was going on.
             According to the book, investments in the factories, farms, and equipment.
             dropped in value from $3.5 billion in 1925 to $3.2 billion in 1929. At the.
             same time, value of the shares traded grew from $27 billion to $87 billion.
             There was serious imbalance between real investment and stock market.
             speculation. It crashed in 1929. Some effects of this depression were mass.
             unemployment, social problems such as a drop in birthrates, many suicides,.
             and poverty across the nation. The Great Depression wasn't something that.
             could in any way be immediately fixed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt who took.


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