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List and explain the major factors that the text identifies as having been principally responsible for causing the Great Depression and making it so severe. How does the text's presentation fit with the varying interpretations that historians have advanced as discussed in "Debating the Past"?
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On what causes of the Great Depression did Herbert Hoover place emphasis? How did that shape his response?
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What did the Depression mean to typical Americans in terms of standard of living and lifestyle? What groups suffered especially? Why? How did basic American social, cultural, and political values stand up to the economic crisis?







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