Describe the Great Depression in one paragraph

Explanation:

the great depression was basically caused after the stock market crash of October 1929 caused by investors selling over priced stocks which send the whole market crashing causing the economy to go down there was no money so the people were left homeless jobless and broke which is why this agonizingly slow recovery, the entire decade of the 1930s in the United States is referred to as the Great Depression

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.