Name: Course Name: Instructor`s Name: Date: American politics and the Great Depression Introduction Depression is a phenomenon associated with mass unemployment ansd an economic hardship. The world depression occurred in the year nineteen thirty and the American economists and politicians have referred it to as “panics”. An example is the panics of the year eighteen seventy three and the panics of the eighteen ninety three. An American president by then named panic as the depression and the name stuck. The great depression affected all industrialized countries in the world namely Britain, France and Germany. Great depression is associated with creating inflation that cripples the nation`s economy. Main body Great depression in America is associated with social problems. The common social related challenges reflects; poverty, unemployment, school drop outs, breakdown of families, organized protests, homelessness, development of shacks and slums and declined farming. American people were demanding their pensions from the banks. People in America became hopeless to a point of having organized peaceful demonstrations in the streets (McElvaine Para 2). The great depression in America portrayed various images namely, bread lines, college graduates becoming attendants in the gas stations, former successful businessmen selling apples or pencils in the streets, increased suicides, increased mental illnesses, hoboes hopping freight trains and farmers in Oklahoma escaping the dust...