List at least THREE contributing factors to the Great Depression.

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Seamus Robertson

5 October, 10:42

List at least THREE contributing factors to the Great Depression.

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Jonathan Hogan · Answer 1

1) The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history.

2) The Dust Bowl

3) The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Julissa Mayo · Answer 2

Bank failures

The stock market crash of 1929

Droughts throughout the country, making it hard for farmers to produce crops. The Dust Bowl also happened, causing dozens of dust storms and deaths of livestock and crops.