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Black Tuesday
The day the stock market crashed which caused the great depression to begin -
Banks
Banks going out of business grew to thousands, when the banks closed the money inside didn't go back to the owners.This hurt many because a great majority of Americans didn't have an savings -
Hoover Dam construction
The hoover dam helped in many ways, giving up to 21,000 men jobs and eventually helping Las Vegas become what it is today because of water source -
FDR get elected as President
FDR beats Herbert Hoover in the election, mainly because of his new deal ideas -
Unemployment
The unemployment rate was up to 25% many without jobs -
Civilian Conservation Corps "relief"
Put hundreds of thousands to work specially young men ages 18-25 got pad $30 a month but had to send $25 back home to familes, did economic work like fighting forest fires, planted trees, cleared and maintained access roads. -
Social Security Act "Reform"
established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning in a landslide over Republican Alf Landon -
Works Progress Administration "Recovery"
employing millions of people mostly unskilled men to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
Pearl Harbor attack
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draws United States into World War II. -
The great depression ends
America joins the war, which ended the great depression because the U.S. needed everybody from men , women to children helping for the war and ended unemployment. -
works cited 1
History.com Staff. “Great Depression.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/great-depression. -
works cited 2
“New Deal Programs.” Living New Deal, livingnewdeal.org/what-was-the-new-deal/programs/. -
Purpose
The great depression and the lessons we learned about really interested me. Before I've never knew about the subject or every heard about it. Wanted to do a timeline showing some main points during the time and feel like I've hit some major dates and what happened. There were many more new deal acts but each one is a different example.
