Events that led to the Great Depresion

  • The Stock Market Crash of 1929

    The Stock market crashes leaving billions of dollers in transactions worthless
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    People not Buyiing Anything

    People stoped buying stuff because of the ecenomic strugles in societie, becasue there was less buying there where less production and in turn less jobs.
  • High Unemployment 1930-1939

    Because of less demand for goods productipn had to slow down and less enployees were needed.
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    A tariff that put high taxes on imports which led to less trade between the US and foregian countries.
  • Bank Failures

    Banks had no money and where forced to close by 1933 11 000 of the 25 000 banks had been closed
  • Begining of Dust Bowl Drought

    A big drought in the 1930s that made farming almost impossible which made most farmers unemployed.