prices fell, factories closed and workers were laid off.
Explanation:
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 - 1941. A main cause of the Great Depression was overproduction. Factories and farms were producing more goods than the people could afford to buy. As a result, prices fell, factories closed and workers were laid off.
In 1945, a newspaper editor sent out an article commending about Manifest Destiny. (the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.) Others for religion reasons, and quite a few for the gold rush