The Great Depression was the worst economic slump in the U.S History and had a devastating effect throughout the industrial world. The main causes for the depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distributions of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade.
The poor distribution of wealth in the 1920's existed on many levels. Money was distributed divergently between the rich and the middle - classes, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe.…
