The Great Depresssion

During the Great Depression, which began in the late 20’s and lasted into the early 40’s, the U.S underwent many problems. Although the Depression brought the nation and its people to a major low point in history, it also allowed for a realization of their limited government intervention and gave them an opportunity to change for the future in order to prevent future disasters.
In the early 1920’s the U.S. economy was at an all time high. Business was booming along with the stock market and the quantity of goods made by industry almost doubled. Along with a good economy the “Roaring Twenties” also brought around many new inventions and a renaissance of different cultures. With things going so well the U.S was only destined to run into some problems. In October of 1929 a stock market crash brought the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties to a halt. As seen in Roosevelt’s speech in document one the time period brought along many new problems. One problem faced was that ...