Great depression Era

By kimberlyacosta

  • unenployment rate 1920

    5.2%
  • Period: to

    Great depression era

  • unenployment rate 1921

    8.7%

  • The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression

    Mass migration that took place between 1929 and 1939. As many as 500,000 people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US.

  • unenployment rate 1929

    3.2%

  • the great depression

    crash of the NY stock exchange

  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes was a african poet during the 1930's

  • Dorothea Lange

    She was afamouswriter during the 1930's

  • unenployment rate 1932

    24.1%

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

    defeats him in a lanslide to win presidency

  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    a new deal program that created dams leading to huge employment opportunities, cheap elcectricity, and flood control.

  • Federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)

    government agency that was established during the great depression that protects consumer savings til this day.

  • relief, recovery, reform

  • Beginning of Dust Bowl

    A time of lots of black dust storms from the drought

  • Social Security Act of 1935

    provided retirement income

  • the new deal

  • judicial interpretation during the new deal

  • unemployment rate 1938

    19%

  • Entitlement programs and solvency

    government entitlement program that runs out of money

  • unemployment rate 1942

    4.7%

  • unemployment rate 1950

    11%

  • Medicare & Medicaid

    following up on the social security act.

  • unemployment rate 1975

    7.9%

  • unemployment rate 1990

    5.6%

  • unemployment rate 2009

    9.3%

  • unemployment rate 2012

    6.6%