Complete the following DBQ essay on the causes of the Great Depression using the following documents below and knowledge on the Great Depression (Chapter 20’s Great Depression section). Essay will be turned in hard-copy, MLA formatted, Times New Roman 12 font, double-spaced at the beginning of class Monday, April 22nd.
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH:
Historical Context (Contextualization): Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. The response must relate to the topic of the prompt to broader historical events or developments that occurred before, during, or after the time frame of the question. What is the broader history of what is going around during the time of the prompt. The easiest broader historical events to focus on would be before or during, rather than after.
The Prompt:
How did the following six factors contribute to the Great Depression? Be sure to explain AND identify which ones you believe had the biggest cause and why?
Problems for Farmers
Uneven Distribution Wealth
Overuse of Credit
Problems for Business and Industry
Crash of the Stock Market
Run on the Banks
Thesis (Although, X. A+B. Therefore, Y): Response to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis/claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Do not merely restate or rephrase the prompt. Write out COMPLETE sentences based on the formula provided. Make sure to use the thesis formula.
BODY OF THE PARAGRAPH:
COUNTERARGUMENT Paragraph: This paragraph is the other side of the argument you are making (AKA: supporting an argument on the factors that you believe did not have a strong contribution to the start of the Great Depression). You will acknowledge this opinion with AT LEAST ONE piece of evidence from both the documents and reading.
TOPIC A & TOPIC B (or C, D, etc…) Paragraphs: You will create two paragraphs with the major topics to support your argument on which of the following factors contributed ot the beginning of the Great Depression. A reminder that AT LEAST 50% of the documents must be used and to include evidence from the textbook reading needs to be used as well.
CONCLUSION: Your conclusion needs to be written in COMPLETE sentences. The conclusion summarizes your strongest topics to support your historically defensive claim and summarizes your argument as a whole. It will need to be paragraph length (AT LEAST 5 sentences).
No chatgpt and I gave you the link to the documents. Just use half of them as evidence for your body paragraph. And also for where it says evidence from textbook, here is the link for it (https://digital.wwnorton.com/givemeliberty7) also the username is ***********************************.organs the password is Omarrobbana07
