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The Election of 1928
This election determined the president that was going to have to deal with the economic disaster. The president that won the election was Herbert Hoover -
Hoover Tries to Reassure the nation
He raised the tax by 60% and builds the Hoover dam -
The stock market Crashes
people invested in stocks, so once that crash people lose there money in there stocks and there money is held in the bank. once the bank goes broke for giving people money they have to close, once the bank close people have no way of getting money. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
it was designed to protect American farmers and manufactures from foreign company's but did the opposite, because the stop the flow of goods from other countries it also stop the flow of american currency for other countries to buy American goods which made unemployment worse -
The depression in the cities
The depression in the cities cause the raise in racial violence to African Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. -
social and psychological effects
between 1928-1932 the suicide rate went up 30% but cause people couldn't survive be poor -
Gassing the bonus Army
Hoover The untied States president gassed nearly 17,000 people, the majority was WW1 veterans because there marched to the white house -
Financial Collapse
Because banks couldn't afford to give people money, people where financial broke, that meant business close because the bank couldn't afford to pay them. 11,000 out of the nation 25,000 banks closed. since there where no business people where out of jobs (25 percent of 13 million workers was out of jobs). -
Effects on the American family
mother and father where out of jobs the men had no way to feed there family and children where out of schools because they had no money to provide food and school supply -
The dust bowl
The Great plains which once a great place to start a farm because of how fertilized the ground was had dry out and created dust, which will eventually travel from Nebraska to New York giving people dust in there lungs and sometimes killing people -
Townsend Support
More than 5,000 Townsend Clubs nationwide together represent more than 2 million members. An estimated 25 million Americans have signed petitions asking their representatives to back the Townsend Plan in Washington. -
Roosevelt Reelected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning in a landslide over Republican Alf Landon. Roosevelt wins every state but Maine and Vermont.
