USCIS Civics AHS Specific Practice Test

The Great Depression was the longest economic recession in modern history in the United States, lasting roughly a decade from 1929 into the late 1930s. It involved widespread unemployment, bank failures, falling prices and wages, and severe hardship for many families. It began after the stock market crash of 1929 and continued due to deeper economic problems, with relief and reforms eventually helping to pull the economy back up. It is not a short downturn, not a period of rapid growth, and not a wartime shortage.