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Official question #103US Citizenship Test
What was the Great Depression?
Correct answer
Longest economic recession in modern history
Why
The Great Depression began with the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted through the 1930s. It was the longest economic downturn in modern history, with very high unemployment.
Answer choices
- AA war between the North and the South
- BA period of rapid economic growth
- CLongest economic recession in modern history
- DA drought that ended slavery