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Herbert Hoover elected President
Herbert Hoover was president during one of the worst economic disasters in America's history. He was unprepared to take control to help the unemployed. -
Stock Market Crash
The crash of the stock market was a result of the debt because of people who were buying stock on margin. Buying on margin means that they would take out a loan to buy stock and this was being done by millions of people. -
Dust Bowl
Since 1870s farmers had been working in the Great Plain, but a series of droughts came along in the 1930s. This lead to a sand storm which destroyed everything in its way, farmers were forced to abandon their farms. -
Franklin Roosevelt elected President for his first term.
Roosevelt promised recovery with a New Deal for the American people.Roosevelt won in both the electoral and popular vote. -
New Deal begins
President Roosevelt promised Americans the New Deal. This meant he will work to put things back to normal. Which was Relief, Recovery, and Reform or the three R's. -
FDR Court Packing Scheme
He announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, to make it more efficient.
