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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