The Great Depression

  • bank failures
    1933 BCE

    bank failures

    Bank features surged in the 1920s, particularly affecting small \, rural banks due to the aftermath of the 1920 agriculture shock which combined with over banking, lax regulation, and speculative investments to weaken the financial systems.
  • stock market crash
    1932 BCE

    stock market crash

    The stock market crash is also known as the Great crash. began in October 24,1929 on black thursday and ended on black Tuesday.
  • bank holiday

    bank holiday

    A public holiday in which banks are legally closed. Banks holidays usually corrispond with federal holidays.
  • Herbert Hoovers Presidency

    Herbert Hoovers Presidency

    Herbert was selected as president in 1929. His presidency ended in 1933
  • Smoot Hawley tarriff

    Smoot Hawley tarriff

    U.S. law that significantly raised import duties to protect American farmers and manufactures during the early great Depression. It triggered many other countries with trade, it worsened the economy.
  • Scottsboro Boys Case

    Scottsboro Boys Case

    The Scottsboro Boys case involved nine African American teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931.
  • Bonus army

    Bonus army

    The Bonus Army was a march on Washington D.C. in 1932 by thousands of ww1 veterans demanding immediate payment of promised war bonus.
  • First Firside chat

    First Firside chat

    President Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat, on the emergency banking act eight days after taking office in 1933.
  • FDIC creation

    FDIC creation

    Was created in 1933 by the banking act of 1933.This was signed into law by president Roosevelt.
  • Roosevelt's presidency

    Roosevelt's presidency

    Roosevelt's presidency started in 1933. His presidency ended in 1945
  • National Housing act of 1934

    National Housing act of 1934

    Established the FHA to simulate home building and homeowner ship during the Great depression by providing mortgage insurance to lenders.
  • Indian Reorganization act

    Indian Reorganization act

    Also known as the Wheeler Howard act was a U.S. federal law aimed at reversing as similation policies and promoting Native Americans self-governance and cultural revitalization.
  • Roosevelt's  black cabinet

    Roosevelt's black cabinet

    The Black Cabinet was an unofficial advisory group of African American federal employees who worked to influence federal policy during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.
  • Social Security act

    Social Security act

    A federal law signed in 1935 by Roosevelt as a part of his New Deal program.
  • Dust bowl

    Dust bowl

    A period of severe dust storms in the American and Canadian prairies in the 1930s
  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles

    Makeshift shanteytowns that sprung up across the U.S. during the Great Depression.Most made out of cardboard.