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Wall Street Crash Sparks the Depression
The 1929 stock market crash caused the Great Depression. It was one of the worst stock market crashes in the United States' history. Businesses started to close down, and people lost their savings. -
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The Dust Bowls Begin
The Dust Bowls began from a combination of severe drought, poor farming practices, and strong winds, turning the soil into dust. As a result of this, widespread crop failure, economic hardship, and forced migration occurred. -
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Food Riots and Banks Collapse
"Food Riots" began to break out in parts of the U.S. Several hundred people smashed the windows of shops and made off with food. The New York Bank of the United States collapsed, the largest bank failure in the nation's history. -
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President Roosevelt is Elected
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory by receiving 22,800,000 popular votes to 15,750,000 for Hoover. -
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Dust Storms and Droughts continue
The years of drought in the 1930 were on of the primary causes of a massive dust storm. It was two miles high, traveled 2,000 miles to the east coast, blotting out monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and the U.S. Capitol. -
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Creation of the Works Progress Administration
Later known as the New Deal, this was created by Roosevelt to relieve the economic hardship of the Great Depression. It led to the employment of more than 8.5 million job-seeking people on 1.4 million public projects before it was disbanded in 1943. -
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President Roosevelt Elected for the second term
Roosevelt is elected to his second term as president, winning every state in the union except Maine and Vermont. Roosevelt defeated Kansas Governor and Alfred M. Landon. -
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Spending on New Deal Programs cut
The slow economic recovery made possible by the NEW DEAL programs suffers a setback as unemployment rises. Roodevelts detractors called it the start of the "Roosevelt recession". -
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Economic Growth
Roosevelt askes Congress to authorize $3.75 billion federal spending to stimulatr the sagging economy. Economic indicators respond favorably, but still unemployment remained high and was predicted to stay the was for a long time. -
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The start of World War Two
World War ll began on september 1st 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. Franklin Poosevelt asked congress to help with aid for Britain in its struggle to fend off Germany.