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1. Great Depression

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   Societal Impact and "Hoovervilles"
   In the United States, the human cost was staggering. Unemployment reached $25\%$ by 1933, leaving millions without income. Farmers suffered intensely due to massive crop price deflation and widespread drought conditions, particularly in the Midwest, leading to the ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
   Homelessness became endemic. In major cities, makeshift shantytowns sprang up, derisively nicknamed "Hoovervilles" after then-President Herbert Hoover, whose administration was perceived as being overl…