During the great depression, what were the positives and negatives for people when the economy hits a trough?

     A trough is a low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle. The time evolution of many variables of economics exhibit a wave like behaviour with local maxima (peaks) followed by local minima (troughs). A business cycle may be defined as the period between two consecutive peaks.

profound political, administrative, and social changes in the british isles.