A Nation in Crisis

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The Great Depression of 1929

• A Nation in Crisis

By Nicole Steiner
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A Nation in Crisis

• Causes
• Effects
• Recovery

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Causes

• Media
• Big Businesses
• Structural Weakness
• Deflation
• Money Supply
• Trade Decline

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Graph of American Industrial Production Index

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
• Increased Import Tariffs
• Boycotts
• Increased Export Tariffs

• Raised Tariffs on Imports
• Boycotts
• Raised Tariffs on Exports

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• Effects
• Collapse of Banks
• Crash of Stock Market
• Reduction in Output
• Increases Unemployment
• Decrease in Asset Prices

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Recovery

• New Deal
• Monetary Policies
• WWII

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New Deal

• Farm and Rural Programs
• Economy Act
• Prohibition
• FDIC
• FHA
• SEC

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Great Depression of 1929

• Changed the Economic Landscape
• Affected Every Developed or Developing Country
• Regulated Business Practices
• Required Many New Initiatives to Resolve

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Bibliography
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression