Sunlight. Orchids require just the right amount of sunlight in order to grow successfully. If provided too little sunlight, the plant will fail to blossom; if provided too much sunlight, the blossoms will fade and the foliage will burn.
Nine thousand banks failed during the months following the stock market crash of 1929. It is far too simplistic to view the stock market crash as the single cause of the Great Depression. A healthy economy can recover from such a contraction. Long-term underlying causes sent the nation into a downward spiral of despair.
Focused on their own individual situations, these people did not recognize that their actions would soon combine with a number of other factors to produce the Great Depression. Historians at the beginning of the twenty-first century recognize a number of causes for the Great Depression, including the following: 1  Chronic agricultural overproduction and low prices for farm products. 2  Overproduction of consumer goods by manufacturing industries.