Explain why the causes of the Great Depression led to calls for the government action and reform.

The government had stayed out of the economy for a while. This lack of regulation caused the stock market to crash, excessive use of create, overproduction of consumer goods, a weak farm economy, etc. The tarrifs were also very high. The government had to intervene in order to balance the economy and help many Americans by balancing the distribution of income.

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The government had stayed out of the economy for a while. This lack of regulation caused the stock market to crash, excessive use of create, overproduction of consumer goods, a weak farm economy, etc. The tarrifs were also very high. The government had to intervene in order to balance the economy and help many Americans by balancing the distribution of income.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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