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The Stock Market Crashes
The stock market crashes and it causes mass panic -
The Hoover Dam is Built
The Hoover Dam is actually named after Herbert Hoover the president before FDR. This job gave millions of men jobs. -
The only thing to fear is fear itself
This speech was given by FDR the current president in the depression. This speech inspired many Americans not to fear the depression and that there is some hope still left in the nation. -
FDR gets Inaugurated
FDR gets Inaugurated. His first 100 days in office will be the most important time in our history because he passes 15 bills and he makes the new deal eventually. In the years that he is president he launches so many programs and has unemployment rates drop. -
The New Deal
The new deal had a ton of amazing things in it like the social security act where people over 65 get insurace another good one is that it targeted men ages 18 to 25 to be employed much easier/ -
the CCC is founded
The CCC is an organization that gave millions of men jobs -
The WPA Was founded
This organization was made to hire a ton of people to stop the high percentile of unemployment in our country some of the goverment funded projects they did were building storm drains, schools, and over 130 hospital. -
The Dust Bowl
This event in our history is caused by one thing erosion. The only thing we could have done was take care of the soil as if it was our own. Since we didnt take care of the soil it clumped into little sand particles that got picked up by strong enough winds to start a desert storm. Eventually the storms were so bad that people would get the dirt in there lungs and it could kill them. -
Unemployment at an all time low
A couple years after office hoover does nothing so the unemployment rates go up to 25 percent eventually going even higher.