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Effects of the stock market crash

investors and businesses lose millions

thousands of banks fail-saving are wiped out

businesses cut production-lay off workers

efffects of the great deppersion

new deal prgrams start makes the us govt much larger
defict spendin programs

the vicious cycle of the great depression

companies lose money so they lay people off

unemplyment rate goes up less people buy goods as income has dropped

companies profits fall so they have to lay more people off or close

cycle repeats itself

in early 1924, senator charles L. McNary of oregon and representative Gilber N. Haugen of Iowa introduced a bill calling for the following

A federal farm board was to be created to purchase surplus farm production at pre-world war 1 prices


harry hopkins henry morgenthau
Hoover’s ironic Speech

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land... We shall soon with the help of god be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land

FDR’s brain trust

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