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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 loses 30 billion -
Hoover says the worst is over
President Hoover tells Americans that the economy will start to improve within the next 60 days. -
The big drought begins
The topsoil of different farmlands begin to blow around -
The dust bowl begins
Severe drought hits the midwestern and southern plains, Most crops are destroyed or eventually destroyed in the course of the dust bowl -
FSRC creation
FSRC helped distribute agricultural commodities to the needy. Cotton goods were also included -
Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office
while the US is in the great depression FDR. starts to rebuild the economy and stops the dust storms -
The emergency farm mortgage act
The emergency farm mortgage act was an act allotted around 200 million dollars to help refinance mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure. -
The civilian conservation crops open the first soil erosion control camp
In Clayton country Alabama 160 more camps were built by Sept. -
The Era act and the creation of WPA
FDR,approves the emergency relief appropriation act,which gives 525 million dollars to people effected by drought, and leads to the works progress administration which, over the course of the existence employs 8,500,000 people. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Japans bombs American ships at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Thousands of Americans are killed in the attack