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President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was sworn into office. Herbert Hoover was the president at the time that the stock market crashed. He was the dedicated president in the beginning years of the great depression. -
Black Tuesday
Wall Street investors traded about 16 million shares in one day. Investors lost billions of dollars. In the aftermath of those lost investments, America started to spiral downward into the Great Depression. -
Unemployment
By March of 1930 more than 3.2 million people are unemployed. Although people still remain optimistic that the worst of the economic crash is over. -
Small Profits
By November of 1930 people were scrounging for any little money that they could. People would sit on street corners and sell apples for only five cents hoping to make a small profit. -
Ford Motor
About three thousand unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan. Local police and company guards attack the workers killing four and injuring dozens more. -
Bank Collapse
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Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was sworn into office for the first time as the thirty second president of the United States. This would be his first of three terms during the Great Depression Era.
