the great depression timeline

  • Herbert Hoover elected

    Herbert Hoover elected

    Hoover was elected in March 1929 just before the great depression
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    banks failing

    throughout these 4 years 9,000 banks one-third of all us banks closed
  • black tuesday

    black tuesday

    the worst day of crash of the stock market over 16 million shares were sold
  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles

    during the great depression many people lost their homes leading to the creation of Hoovervilles or houses made from left over scrap and trash in communities of multiple makeshift towns
  • dust bowl

    dust bowl

    the dust bowl was a period of severe dust storms across the prairies of America and Canada due to over farming drought and destruction of native farming this lasted from 1930 to 1936
  • the Smoot-Hawley tariffs

    the Smoot-Hawley tariffs

    a tariffs passed to protect american farmers and manufacturers during the great depression
  • scottsboro boys case

    scottsboro boys case

    9 African American ages 13 to 21 were accused falsely of rape over many years they went through many trials leading to 4 being found not guilty and the other 5 receiving lengthy prison sentences
  • bonus army

    bonus army

    world war 1 veterans marched to Washington demanding early bonus payments but President Hoover refused this lowered his support
  • Herbert Hoover leaves office

    Herbert Hoover leaves office

    he believed people should deal with things themselves and lessened government help
  • Franklin Roosevelt elected

    Franklin Roosevelt elected

    he launched the new deal a series of of government programs and reforms designed to provide relief recovery and reforms
  • Roosevelt's black cabinet

    Roosevelt's black cabinet

    a group of African american government officials under FDR used to help with racial issues
  • bank holiday

    bank holiday

    Franklin d Roosevelt made this holiday to stop panic and would inspect banks and reopen them if financially sound
  • first fireside chat

    first fireside chat

    this was the first of a series of direct radio addresses to the us people through radios it was used to sooth the American mind during the great depression
  • creation of the FDIC

    creation of the FDIC

    Federal deposition insurance corporation was created to ensure peoples deposits
  • Indian reorganization act

    Indian reorganization act

    this reversed the assimilation policies of the past by ending the forced allotment of tribal lands and giving natives the right to self-determination
  • national housing act of 1934

    national housing act of 1934

    created the federal housing administration to provide mortgages, housing markets, a construction industry and more
  • social security act

    social security act

    this act passed by FDR gave pensions to the elderly , unemployment insurance, and aid to the disabled
  • Franklin Roosevelt leaves office

    Franklin Roosevelt leaves office

    this was the longest anyone has ever been in office he served till his death