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  1. 3 days ago · What was the Great Depression? What were the causes of the Great Depression? How did the Great Depression affect the American economy?

    • Key Facts

      The United States experienced four waves of banking panics...

    • Timeline

      Timeline of important events pertaining to the Great...

    • Causes and Effects

      view archival footage of the impoverished American...

    • Political Movements

      Aside from the Civil War, the Great Depression was the...

  2. 2 days ago · Europeans withdrew gold from American banks, leading the banks to call in their loans to American businesses. A cascade of bankruptcies ensued, bank customers collapsing first and after them the banks.

  3. 3 days ago · The fundamental cause of the Great Depression in the United States was a decline in spending (sometimes referred to as aggregate demand), which led to a decline in production as manufacturers and merchandisers noticed an unintended rise in inventories.

  4. 1 day ago · From the close of the nullification episode of 1832–1833 to the outbreak of the Civil War, the agitation of state rights was intimately connected with a new issue of growing importance, the slavery question, and the principal form assumed by the doctrine was that of the right of secession.

  5. 1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

  6. 4 days ago · Next year, interest payments will top $1 trillion on national debt of more than $30 trillion, itself a sum roughly equal to the size of the US economy, according to the Congressional Budget Office ...

  7. 2 days ago · July 4, 2024. The political climate for President Biden is worse this morning than it was just a few days ago. First, the polls: A New York Times/Siena College poll, released yesterday, shows that ...