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Franklin Roosevelt Takes Office
He took quick steps to declare a 4 day bank holiday, during which the Congress will come up with the Emergency Banking Act that will stabilize the banking industry and restore peoples faith -
The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
This Act grant $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps
They opened the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton Country, Alabama. -
California's San Joaquin Valley
Many farmers fled the plains have gone seeking migrant farm work, the largest agricultural work strike In Americas history begins. More than 18,000 cotton workers with the Cannery and Agricultural workers Industrial Union strike for 24 days. During the strike 1 man and 2 women are killed and hundreds are injured. -
Great Dust Storms
Dust Storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought get worse than ever in the US history. covering more than 75% of the country affecting 27 state severely. -
The Yearbook of Agriculture
1934 announces that approximately 35 million acres of formally cultivated land had been destroyed for crop production. 100 million acres now in crops have lost all or most of the topsoil. -
Roosevelt Signs the Taylor Grazing Acts
The act allows him to take up to 140 million acres of federally owned land out of the public domain and established grazing districts that would be carefully monitored. -
Federal Government Forms a Drought Relief Service
To coordinate relief activities. The DSR buys cattle in countries that are designated emergency areas, for $14 to $20 a head. The remaining cattle are given to the federal Surplus Relief Corporation to be used in food distribution to families nationwide. -
FDR Approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
Provided $525 million for drought relief and authorized the creation of the Works Progress Administration that employ 8.5 million people. -
Black Sunday
The worst black blizzard of the Dust Bowl occur, causing extensive damage.