How had the following areas of american economy shown a weakness before the depression? agriculture, foreign trade, and credit (awnser how agriculture foreign trade and the credit shown a weakness before the depression)

Agriculture showed weakness before the great depression, actually rural parts of America never recovered from the depression that followed WWI. Prices were declining and farmers were behind their mortgages at that time. In the Great Plains problems were even bigger, because farmers faced a severe drought, dust storms, and insects. When the Great Depression came, things got even worse.

Foreign Trade before the Great Depression was a small part of the US economic activity. It was concentrated mostly on farms. The World at the time did not demand American goods as much as before, because of WWI, also, European industry and agriculture were more productive after the War and because of the war, European countries decided not to buy goods from overseas and invest in their own countries.

Credit was another weakness before the Great Depression, as said before, farmers were having many troubles and many of them had their land mortgaged. Crop prices were down and they could not pay what they owed to the banks. This caused a crisis before the Great Depression, the country was full of small banks which made unwise loans and invested poorly in stock markets.

lincoln presided over the union victory in the american civil war, which dominated his presidency. a former whig, lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. his election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the american civil war.

the underground railroad (apocope of the metropolitan railroad) is a system of urban trains located within a city and its metropolitan area. it is characterized for being a massive transport of passengers in the big cities, uniting diverse zones and their environs, with high capacity and frequency and in segregated form to other systems of transport. metropolitan railroads are built underground or on the surface, although most systems use mixed models where sections are combined in both modalities.

1 - as a result, the metro tends to reduce car travel for two reasons: first, due to the greater transfer of users from the car and, second, due to the reduction in the acquisition of cars in homes located in sectors near the stations of the metro.

2 -the metro allows to contribute effectively to the achievement of all the objectives of an urban development policy: it improves the efficiency of the city's economy by reducing travel costs and also generates a higher level of activities in the city center, taking advantage of of the agglomeration economies.

3 -it is a clean means of transport, since it uses renewable energy (usually electricity), taking care of the environment and avoiding excessive pollution.