The Great Depression

By Abbyhart08

  • The "crash"

    The "crash"
    The stock market crashes, marking the end of six years of unparalleled prosperity for most sectors of the American economy.

  • Food Riots

    Food Riots
    "Food riots" begin to break out in parts of the U.S. In Minneapolis, several hundred men and women smash the windows of a grocery market and make off with food

  • Roosevelt elected president

    Roosevelt elected president
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president in a landslide over Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt receives 22.8 million popular votes to Hoover's 15.75 million.

  • Gold Standard

    Gold Standard
    President Roosevelt, under the Emergency Banking Act, orders the nation off of the gold standard.

  • The dust bowl

    The dust bowl
    A three-day dust storm blows an estimated 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest.

  • New Yorks bank of U.S.

    New Yorks bank of U.S.
    December 1931
    New York's Bank of the United States collapses. At the time of the collapse, the bank had over $200 million in deposits, making it the largest single bank failure in the nation's history.

  • Great Depression ends

    Great Depression ends
    The war effort will jump-start U.S. industry and effectively end the Great Depression