The Great Depression

The Great Depression

One of the main causes of the Great Depression was the difference in wealth between middle class society and upper class society. A few after effects of the depression were, The Hawley-smoot tariff, and the inability of European countries to pay back their debt to the U.S.
Before the great depression, companies were making more goods then what the consumers needed, with the middle class people making enough to get by and the upper class people already own 1 or more of the finished products, such as cars and radios, w...