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Great Dpression
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Herbert Hoover Elected
The stock market crashed shortly after he was elected. He did not think helping the poor was his responsibility. He presented Congress with the "Reconstruction Finance Corporation". -
Stock Market Crash
Stock Market crashed on Wall Street
Also known as "Black Thursday"Stocks were sold at inflated pricesThe stocks lost their value and most of the money for the stocks was lost -
Frankiln D Roosevelt elected
He created the New Deal. -
CCC founded
It was the relief of unemployment through public work and other purposes. The program was part of President Franklin's New Deal. -
New Deal
The New Deal was created to in order to provide jobs to citizens -
EPIC founded
EPIC was started by Upton Sinclair to end poverty in California. -
Share the Our Wealth society is established
Huey P. Long helped redistributed wealth from the rich to the poor. More than 7 milllion Americans joined his clubs. He was then assinated in 1935. -
Dust Bowl
Dust storms occurred frequently in the mid-west. Because of the droughts in the past four years, the soil dried out, and the grass was then plowed for farming.The soil was not being held down by anything, so its was easily blown around by the wind. -
Huey Long Assassinated
Dr. Carl Weiss shot Huey Long in Baton Rouge, Louisianna. -
German-American Nazi Rally
In New York City The German-American Bund stages a Nazi Rally. The US is slowly moving into WWII.
