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Black Thursday
When the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 11% at the open in very heavy volume, precipitating the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s. -
Black Tuesday
When panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (four times the normal volume at the time), and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%. -
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Great Depression
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Apple Sellers
6,000 unemployed workers are selling apples for 5 cents a piece -
Food Riots
Thousands of men and women were smashing windows to grocery stores and stealing the food in there -
Bonus Bill
More than 300 World War I veterans leave Portland, Oregon to go to Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass the Bonus Bill. -
Election
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president over Herbert Hoover. -
Glass-Steagall
Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act that separates commercial from investment banking and sets up the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee bank deposits. -
The Dust Bowl
A three-day dust storm blows an estimated 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest and deposits it as far east as New York and Boston. -
Automobile Workers Strike
United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors Plant in Flint, Michigan. The strike turns violent when strikers clash with company-hired police -
Memorial Day Massacre
At Republic Steel's South Chicago plant, workers and their families try to combine a picnic with a rally and demonstration. Ten people are killed and a dozen more are wounded in the "Memorial Day Massacre."
