GREAT DEPRESSION

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  • Wall Street Crash

    Stock market crashed known as Black Tuesday

  • Dust bowl

    The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression.

  • Major Bank Collapse

    11,000 Banks closed out of 25,000

  • Unemployment

    25% of US unemployed

  • Roosevelt elected

    32nd president

  • 21st amendment

    repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol

  • New deal

    a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States

  • Gold Reserve Act

    all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in the sole title of the United States Department of the Treasury.

  • Roosevelt re-election

    Reelection as president