What was a cause of the Great Depression? How did that cause contribute to the Great Depression?

The cause of the Great Depression in the United States was the stock market crash. There was also an overproduction of goods that were underconsumed (they weren't bought as much as they were being produced). Those causes contributed to the Great Depression because it bought many problems like unemployment, poverty, many people were struggling to buy food (starvation), there was race and gender inequality everywhere as well. Because of these problems, Americans started to help each other and formed organizations to help with the Great Depression.

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president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.