What economic factors and conditions plunged the nation to a great depression?

The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into it's longest, deepest economics crisis of its history.  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.  

herodotus taught this. herodotus was an ancient greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire. he is known for having written the book the histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the greco-persian wars.