Sentence:  In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover , and the party 's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression , caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering <WSD>brought</WSD> on by the economic crash . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  cause to arise