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Women gained rights.
Women gained the right to vote. ( sometime in the 1920s) -
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Prohibiton
18th amendment was in force & alcoholic beverages could not be legally sold in the US. -
The Stock Market Crashes
On a day called "Black Thursday," stock market prices start to drop. The stock market "crashes" when prices keep dropping and by the end of November, the stock market loses $30 billion. -
Hoover says the worst is over.
President Herbert Hoover tells Americans that the economy will start to improve within the next 60 days. The Great Depression is actually just getting started. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford created the first car. -
Food riots begin
Food riots start in cities across the United States. Hungry Americans smash grocery store windows, take food, and run away because they do not have any other way of getting food to eat. -
Roosevelt.
While campaigning for president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt promises Americans "a new deal." The programs he creates after he is elected will be called The New Deal. -
The new president
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president for the first time. Many Americans did not think that President Hoover did enough to help them and hope that Roosevelt will end the Depression. -
The Emergency Banking Act is passed.
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. By the end of the month, almost all of the banks that had closed when the Depression started are open again. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
The first New Deal program, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is created. Thousands of young men go to camps to work on projects such as building parks, building roads, and fighting forest fires. -
Dorothea Lange takes the Migrant Mother photo.
Photographer Dorothea Lange takes photographs of a poor family working at a pea-picking camp in California. One of the photos, called "Migrant Mother," is one of the most famous photographs to come from the Great Depression.
