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repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol -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