Which of the following causes of the Great Depression does Roosevelt explicitly reference?

A.
the widespread failure of crops and incompetent farming

B.
the lack of federal guarantees for local banks and stockbrokers

C.
the failure of the financial market thanks to stubbornness and incompetence

D.
the great disparity between the small number of wealthy and large number of poor

B. the lack of federal guarantees for local banks and stockbrokers

According to Roosevelt, the cause of the Great Depression that he explicitly references is option D - the great disparity between the small number of wealthy and large number of poor.