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    Could whites and Indians have lived peaceably in the trans-Mississippi West? I do not think that the whites and Indians could have lived peacefully in the trans-Mississippi West. I believe this is because of the ways the Indians were living and hunting. Also with how the whites were not concerned with their customs and only had a one track mind on what they wanted of their land. The government “attempted” to keep peace by pressuring the Indians into treaties that were only broken and then new ones

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    reforms made by the government to dig America out of the Depression. The Great Depression was a massive depression that struck because of a stock market crash. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the main backers of The New Deal. The New Deal tried greatly to reverse the effects of the Depression while receiving help from F.D.R. while also being the target of many critics. Some things that the New Deal did to try to reverse the Depression was building projects to provide jobs. For example‚ “one

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    The Great Depression was in 1929‚ it was the biggest and longest economic collapse. The Great Depression occurred because of two long term causes. The two long term causes of the Great Depression were the stock market and banks. The Stock Market was one of the long term causes because people were constantly speculating the Stock Market and buying on Margin. This was a big contributor to the Great Depression because when you speculate the Stock Market you constantly buy your stock then sell it right

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    Black Tuesday. On October 29th The Stock Market went down another 12%‚ this was the final blow that led to the Great Depression. People lost there jobs which led to them not being able to pay there bills they then lost there house‚ and had to sell what they had‚ such as their cars‚ TVs and so on so that they could afford food. The president during the beginning of the Great Depression was Hoover‚ he didn’t think that relief groups should be started and that the people should fend for them selves/

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    Stock Market Crash Of 1929 By: Owen Davis The stock market crash was a horrid economic crash that led to the Great Depression. Billions of dollars were lost in this horrific event. It occurred on Black Thursday‚ Black Friday‚ Black Monday‚ and Black Tuesday. Black Tuesday was the huge peak of the crash. The stock market was dropping because of various economic failures‚ so everyone wanted to get their money. It lasted from October 24‚ 1929 to 1939. Investors traded approximately 16 million shares

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    As defined by Investopedia‚ “ The Great Depression was an economic recession that began on October 29‚ 1929‚ following the crash of the U.S. stock market…Lasting nearly a decade‚ the Depression caused massive levels of poverty‚ hunger‚ unemployment and political unrest.” Although‚ in Iowa‚ The great depression had devastated farming families as early as 1920 . When the stock market crashed in 1929 farming families lost what little they had maintained through the prior decade. The greatest* factors*

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    the Great Depression was responsible for a mass unemployment. At the same time‚ the United States also encountered a much larger influx of people migrating from Asia; the biggest group being Chinese‚ Japanese‚ and Filipino. The second wave of this migration was in part due to the liberation of the Philippines from Spanish colonization and the start of a period when the Philippines became a part of U.S. territory. This then allowed Filipinos to be unrestricted from immigrating to the United States

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    The Great Depression was the most severe and longest economic collapse in the history of the Western World (North America and Europe). The Great Depression started on October 29th 1929‚ also known as Black Tuesday. On this infamous day in not only the United States history but also most of the Western Worlds‚ the stock market crashed‚ resulting in the wipe out of over 40 percent of the monetary values of common stock. The Great Depression lasted almost 10 years‚ ending in April of 1939. Economically

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    Anthony H The beginning of world war 3 was more tremendous than you think‚ it first started by the great depression it started in 1929 to 1939 an it was one of the causes of ww2 but yet In the United States‚ the great depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929.it was the deepest and longest economic downturn in history 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed‚ in 1939 ww2 started to kick in by then. Americans dropped unsold goods and it began to pile up slowing production

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    the Great Depression the people were panicked‚ this quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt helped to demonstrate that there was hope left after all the tragic events. Although the Great Depression was a tragic day in history‚ society has been benefitted by making different approaches and laws because of the mistakes that were made during the Great depression‚ electing Franklin D. Roosevelt to which he made new regulations‚ and passing the first Social Security Act by Congress. The Great Depression was a

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