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The Great Depression
Title: The Great Depression
Category: History
Details: Words: 1210 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Great Depression
On October 24, 1929, the collapse of the United States stock market was the catalyst for the beginning of The Great Depression. Bank failures, a steady decline in prices for most consumer goods, massive wage cuts, and unemployment were all symptoms of the stock crash that plagued America and would eventually affect Canada. The stock market crash was not the cause of the Depression but it triggered a series of events. The 1920’s had been one of …showed first 75 words of 1210 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1210 total…western provinces that insulated them from the severity of each other’s plight. There were no television reports or national coverage in the newspapers to tell the other what was happening. As a result the western provinces felt abandoned by the eastern provinces. The relationship between the Eastern and Western provinces was already tense; The Great Depression intensified these feelings of hostility that still continue to fester between the eastern and western provinces of Canada.
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