Signs of weakness in US economy - mining, railroads, and clothing manufactures in decline, agriculture experiencing prolonged downturn, Stock Market Crash - people were buying things that they could not afford and not being able to pay the loan of the bank back, people where also making too many things that they couldn't sell, How did great depression come about - people losing jobs, people cant pay debt, farmers lost inventory and people buying products, making to much product that people can't buy, Human costs to the Great Depression - unemployment, growing poverty, people not being to pay off what they bought, How did hoover respond to the Great Depression - start up soup kitchens, created public works to employ jobless people, started Reconstruction Finance Cooperation ,

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