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What Caused The Great Depression Essay

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The Great Depression for farmers was caused by overproduction after World War I (The American Promise p. 642). Some farmers were unable to produce at all, being victim to the dust storms that covered the land in feet of earth, similar to the farm in picture A (LC-USF34-002505). Out of poverty, farmers felt compelled to mortgage their farms in order to pay for farm improvements, hoping to generate money (LC-USF34-010117). In order to pay the mortgage, many farmers became unable to afford necessities similar to the couple in picture B, who had been unable to afford shingles for their roof for five years (LC-USF342-T-030857). Government equated the farm depression to the normal ups and downs of the economy and assumed it would correct its self.
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