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The Great Depression
During the Great Depression more than 11,000 banks failed, unemployment was at an all time high of 25% and over $1 billion in bank deposits were lost -
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The Great Depression Starts
The Great Depression starts after the stock market crashes and wipes out the investors and led to unemployment -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of laws, programs, and government agencies that placed regulations on the stock market, banks, and business. -
Trade Policy
The trade policy raised U.S. tariffs over 20,000 imported goods but it backfired and as the Europeans retaliate and don't buy american goods -
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The start of the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl started from over farming, livestock overgrazing, and drought resulting in crop failure and huge dust storms -
President Change
During the beginning of the Great Depression Herbert Hoover was president but in 1933 FDR was elected and promised America a "New Deal" -
The Dust Bowl
Over 100 million acres of land were affected and more than 300,000 people move to California to start a new life due to the agricultural failure of the Great Plains -
Crime
Throughout the great depression and the dust bowl. Most people built home on private property or stealing trying to get ahead economically -
The Bonus Army
The Bonus Army got together and started a protest where they gathered around Washington DC and demanded cash payment for their redeemable service certificates. They are thrown out and possessions are burned but get payed in 1936 -
World War 2
It is said that the beginning of World War 2 was the end of the Great Depression because unemployment rates dropped from 25% all the way to 10%