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America's Great Depression had several causes. Obviously, it had a lot to do with the stock market crash of 1929, but other factors probably contributed to the depression as well. Reduction of international trade due to the imposition of tariffs played a part, and as others have mentioned, the Dust Bowl and the Federal Reserve helped cause or worsened the depression. Fortunately, some of the policies of the New Deal and our transition to a war-time economy lifted us out of the depression for the most part.
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"As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen… it is declared… The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
-Treaty of Tripoli, 1794.
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