October of 1929, the month that sent all of Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors across the United States. Steep declines in employment rates lead to failing companies and more than half of the country's banks, destroyed. The initial start of the great depression. Over the next 10 years, repossessions and foreclosure climbed, leaving many sleeping on the streets and struggling to collect food. The Great Depression found a grew the cracks of democracy in the United States triggering challenges to a great extent. New waves of economic contagion, drastic social changes and a decline in trust of a united government contributed to the major losses outcoming the Great Depression.
The Great Depression sparked a number of challenges to the current government, a democratic republic due to the rise in American fascist beliefs and growing popularity among lower social classes. Extreme growth was portrayed in the rising number of members in specified hate groups as well, including Nazi organizations and Ku Klux Klan rallies. Social dislocation through this recession triggered fear in Americana citizens that democracy would fail and
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From 1929 to 1939, black Tuesday brought financial despair and political uncertainty to the nation, triggering a domino effect of challenges to democratic systems in the United States. With a crippled economy, distrust of the government and civil unrest hanging over the nation, the American people were forced to confront the hard truth that their government, the idea of democracy and the carefully constructed society they lived in could not guarantee economic prosperity. The resulting desperation prompted the American people to scrutinize the motives, efficiency and freedoms of the nation's democratic governance. This essay will explore the extent to which the Great Depression caused and sustained challenges to democracy in the United