great depression and dust bowl

The emergency farm mortgage act

May 12, 1922

helped farmers that were facing forcloser

black monday

Oct 28, 1929

stock percent fell 13 percent

great depression starts

Oct 29, 1929

Stock markets drop almost everywhere.

dust bowl starts

1930

all soil had turned to dust and no rain flow occurred for years.

smooth-Hawley Tariff Act

May 17, 1930

Hoover signed the Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act. It raised taxes on 900 imports

major bank crisis

1931

$200 million dollars was lost in deposit

emergency banking act

1932

emergency banking act was passed

Roosevelt

Mar 4, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated into office as the 32nd president.

dust bowl ends

1936

rain finally came and soil started to reappear

great depression ends

1939

the stock markets eventually recovers