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The Great Depression was a time of tremendous poverty and depravation. It put many hard-working men and women out of their jobs and sources of income. It left many wholesome, decent, families out on the street, homeless; their pride and dignity stripped of them. ....

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.... main cause of it was the huge stock market crash that occurred in 1929. Many people lost a lot of money when the market crashed. Herbert Clark Hoover was president at that time and many people blamed him, and were very upset about his decisions involving the economy. They dealt with their anger by not reelecting Hoover, but instead, electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president the next time around. He was the one who helped get the economy back in shape by creating a program called the "Big Deal." The Big Deal was a government funded program that gave jobs to the jobless, and homes to the homeless. In return for getting the economy ....