4th-The+Great+Depression

The Great Depression started in the late 1920's and lasted about a decade. It was known to be the worst economic slump in U.S. history. Many things were the cause of the Great Depression; although, the main cause of it was a combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's. The extensive stock market speculation that took place further on in that same decade. Money was given out separately between the wealthy and the middle class also between industry and algriculture within the United States and also between the U.S. and Europe. Almost all the nations strive to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting prices on foreign imports. It had important consequences in the political circle. Which then lead the United States, economic distress into the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a democrat in the presidency in the late 1932...........The Stock Market Crash of 1929 did not cause the Depression, but instead the crash was caused by the Great Depression. The true causes of the Great Depression were put in neatly into the folds of America's unstable economic structure.