Introduction

Assignment done by Jessica Harris and Jonathan Balemans, grade 12, Saint John High School, Saint John, NB. Teacher: Douglas Gould. Winter 2005.

The severe crisis of the 1930's, which we call the Great Depression, first showed its face on the 24th of October, 1929 when the United States Stock Market quickly crashed. Within nine months of quick chain reactions everyone in North America was suffering from the effects of the Great Depression.