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the beginning of the great depression
The beginning of the Great Depression is known as the dramatic crash of the stock market on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929 when 16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by panicking people who had lost faith in the American economy. -
great depression sand storm
the united states went through a great drought throughout out some of the years of the great depression -
first bank panic begins
The first of four banking panics begins. A banking panic is when people who had deposited their money in banks lose confidence in the security of the banks and withdraw their cash. -
the smoot hawley tariff act
presdent hoover signed the smoot hawley tariff act in june of 1930 the act raises tax n imports in effort to protect business -
Hooverville
during the great depression many people became homeless and had to build their own home with whatever they could find and there where so many of homeless people that there started to become little villages dedacated to president hoover -
Franklin D Roosevelt
In the 1932 U.S presidential election Hoover loses to Franklin D. Roosevelt. He wins with an overwhelming majority, carrying 472 electoral votes to Hoover’s 59 electoral votes. -
great depression bread line
The depression left many Americans hungry and in poverty. People waited in long breadlines, hoping for something to eat. People sold apples on street corners for five cents. -
Recovery in the United States
President Roosevelt’s New Deal establishes programs, such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide federal aid and temporary jobs. -
Roosevelt takes immediate action
President Roosevelt takes immediate action once in office and declares this day as national bank holiday. which closes all banks until they are declared secure by the government. -
museum aid
Museums in the United States were among the beneficiaries of Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs during the 1930s. -
the united states hit with another outbreak
The United States is hit with another severe economic downturn. -
Growth of economic production
Although economic production grew in the mid-1930s and millions of people found jobs in government programs, the United States experienced another downturn in 1937 to 38. Full economic recovery returned in 1942. -
the U.S. economy gets back on a recovery path
production finally returns to its predepression numbers by 1942. Recovery in the rest of the world gets greater. The economies of Great Britain, Germany, and Japan began to recover by the end of 1932. France, however, does not move into a recovery phase until 1938. -
the arts of the United States.
The Great Depression had a major influence on the arts in the United States. Author John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath of 1939 about a family’s struggle to escape Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. -
End of the great depression
The Great Depression ended and the most affected countries by 1933 but many countries did not fully recover until the late 1930s or early 1940s.