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Several economic and political decisions caused the Great Depression to continue longer than it might have. What particular decision ensured that the recovery period would be long and difficult?
a.) Legislators failed to identify the cause of the high unemployment rate and the stress it caused workers.

b.) The U. S. government's commitment to the Federal Reserve made it difficult for other countries to recover.

c.) Politically motivated decisions to remove tariffs on foreign goods made the global depression last longer.

d.) Resistance to putting aside the gold standard kept many governments from providing stimulus money.

After being a closed book for decades, economists have revisited the Great Depression using recent developments in economic theory and quantitative methods. This new research is surprising, as it finds that several aspects of the Depression contrast sharply with long-standing explanations.

The conventional view is that the Depression began as a garden variety recession, which then became the Depression through banking crises and the failure of the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply. This view also argues that the recovery from the Depression was on track until 1937, when the Fed raised bank reserve requirements and President Roosevelt reduced fiscal stimulus.

Explanation:

im not sure but i honestly hope this helps!

i think its the outcome of people's preferences.