Great Depression In America Research Paper

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To what extent did the Great Depression change the lives of Americans and the future of the United States? Plan of Investigation This investigation will be about how the Great Depression changed the lives of the Americans in the 1929 and how it changed the future that we live in today. Preferably, the sources that will be used in this investigation will be primary or secondary. Each source will be judged by using the OPVL method in order to have legitimate and factual result. This investigation will have a summary of evidences where all the sources that were used will be summarized in chronological order, an evaluation of sources where two of the major sources that was used in this investigation will be judged by the OPVL method, and analysis…show more content…
It did not only affect Americans, but also the whole world. The Great Depression was caused by the crash of the stock market or the lack of real investment opportunities in the 1920’s, product innovation that caused less labor, President Roosevelt believed that it was caused by the structural problems and doubted simulative spending will solve the problem, and some argued it was caused by the shift toward modern employment relation that was made by the Great War. A Depression in the economy can start by raising taxes and dismissing government’s employees and both of these actions can start a depression and both of these were done by the government in 1929. Once this is done, it will have a chain reaction where it will get to the point where the economy will fall and cause its people to live in poverty. The prices of the products will either increase or stay the same but the wages of the people will always decrease. Black Thursday…as it was remembered, October 24,1929, nearly 13 million shares of stock changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the prices dropped sharply causing great alarm in financial community. The next day, the President reassured the people that there’s no need to alarm because the economy was on sound footing. Days, weeks, months, and years passed people lived in poverty, there are people who are called as ‘hoovervilles’ that were blaming the President of their current living status. The…show more content…
This book’s purpose is to inform the global impact of the Great Depression, how it affected the whole world and its economy. This book states how the countries tried to end the Depression and what they did in order to stop it. This book can be used to know how the world faced the Great Depression in order to compare how the Americans and other people faced the Depression. The limitation for this source is that it only specifies the more bigger countries and not give attention to the smaller ones, another limitation is how it mostly focuses on United States compared to the other
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