Great Depression & Dust Bowl

By makiya1
  • Wall Street Crash

    Everybody was buying stocks then the stock market crashed and everyone lost all their money they put into stocks
  • Dust Bowl

    There was a drought across 23 states the farmers couldn't do anything. It got so bad the government gave 65 million dollars worth of food, seed and feed for the farmers.
  • Riots

    Riots were breaking out because nobody had food hundreds of people broke into grocery stores and took all the food.
  • Bank Fails

    The fourth largest bank fails. It had over 200 million dollars in deposits making it the largest bank failure in the U.S. The president raised taxes by 25% after this.
  • Beer-Wine Revenue Act

    They repeal the 21st amendment that doesn't allow the sell of alcohol so they can put taxes on alcohol to try to help the economy
  • Dust Storms

    More dust Storms hit Oklahoma and the surrounding states farmers were boosting their prices and reducing their stock
  • Gold Reserve Act

    It doubled the price of gold and banned private ownership
  • Work Progress Administration

    It created 8.5 million jobs to help with the unemployment rates
  • New Deal Program Cut

    Roosevelt was trying to relieve the country's debt and cut back on the New deals program that ended up sending the economy back into depression
  • Economic Growth

    The economy was finally growing and brought the country out of depression even thought the unemployment rates were still high