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What event was considered the start of the Great Depression?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although the “dust bowl” conditions that plagued American farms during the Great Depression certainly made an awful situation worse, the Library of Congress noted that many of those farms were already put in peril by the sudden stock market crash of 1929. Sadly, the droughts meant many farmers couldn’t pull themselves out of the economic depletion without abandoning their life’s work entirely.

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What event was considered the start of the Great Depression?

• The rise of Fascism in Europe
• The election of President Herbert Hoover
• The stock market crash of 1929
• Widespread droughts throughout the United States