The Great Depression

  • bank failures

    bank failures

    the banks after the stock market were terrible. None of them had hardly any money while everyone Is trying to get there money out but can not because the bank is closed.
  • The Stock Market Crash

    The Stock Market Crash

    The stock market crashed. People where scrambling to get money and are left with hardly anything.
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Add tariffs on goods out of the US. Made them more expensive hurt us more then helped us.
  • FDIC Creation

    FDIC Creation

    Was made to help stabilize the bank/financial system in the US. This was after the widespread failure of multiple banks.
  • Bank holiday

    Bank holiday

    Created to shut down banks that where not good to the public anymore. For such banks as them to be "inspected"
  • Herbert Hoover's presidency

    Herbert Hoover's presidency

    Joined right before the stock market crashed. Didn't want to help civilians at all thought it wasn't helpful.
  • first fireside chat

    first fireside chat

    Franklin addresses the US and tells them about the banking crisis.
  • social security act

    social security act

    started giving a amount of money to disabled or older people.shifts the government role to help with economic security.
  • bonus army

    bonus army

    Didn't give the war veterans their bonus and they stormed Washington and fight the army that they once fought for.
  • Roosevelt's Presidency

    Roosevelt's Presidency

    Was a Greta president and helped a lot of people. Gave people jobs to send money back to their families.
  • Roosevelt's black cabinet

    Roosevelt's black cabinet

    a organized unofficial group of African American advisors.
  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles were makeshift shantytowns of homeless people during the Great Depression
  • dust bowl

    dust bowl

    a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s, primarily in the Great Plains, caused by a combination of severe drought, poor agricultural practices that removed native grasses, and high winds that carried away topsoil.
  • Indian reorganization act

    Indian reorganization act

    reversed the U.S. Federal government's assimilation policies towards Native Americans by ending the allotment of tribal lands and promoting tribal self-government and sovereignty
  • Scottsboro boys case

    Scottsboro boys case

    The Scottsboro Boys case involved the wrongful arrest and conviction of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, after two white women falsely accused them of rape.
  • national housing act of 1934

    national housing act of 1934

    The Scottsboro Boys case involved the wrongful arrest and conviction of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, after two white women falsely accused them of rape.