Origins of the Great Depression:

1.              U.S. Business Fundamentally Flawed

a.     Overproduction/underconsumption

b.     Stock market speculation                         

                                    c. Run on the Banks               

                        2. Farm Depression

                                    The Dust Bowl

                        3. Worldwide depression

                        4. Bad Policy:

a. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

b. Agricultural Marketing Act:

            c. National Credit Corporation:

d. Reconstruction Finance

Corporation:

e. Presidential Organization for

Unemployment Relief (POUR)

f. Bonus March