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The Crash
In the United States, people thought their country would not become a victim of the Great Depression that had taken over Europe. However on the 29th of October the stock market crashed sending the United States into their Great Depression. -
Major Bank collapse
New York's Bank of the United States collapses in the largest bank failure to date in American history. $200 million in deposits disappear, and the bank's customers are left holding the bag. -
The Dust Bowl
Along with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl in the middle of the country. The Dust Bowl was taking place in the Great Plains. Which included Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. The Dust Bowl was caused by the lack of crop rotation and basically killed the soil in the ground and drying it up causing dust storms. -
Hoover being president
Three years into the depression, President Herbert Hoover, widely shamed for not doing enough to combat the crisis, lost the election of 1932 to Franklin Delano Roosevelt by an embarrassingly wide margin. ... The Depression also resulted in an increase of emigration for the first time in American history. -
Unemployment
At the peak of the Great Depression the unemployed persons in the U.S. had reached 8.7 percent up about 5 percent from when the Great Depression had started. It was becoming a major issue with those who only had their job left to keep them going. -
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
An act passed in 1933 to bar U.S. banks from underwriting stocks and bonds. The act also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Unlike the Emergency Banking Relief Act, the Glass-Steagall Act was aimed at providing long-term reform -
Migration
Due to the jobless cities in populated areas many people hear of land and jobs in California. They decide to move themselves and/or their families to the west for the promise of a better life. -
longshoremen strike
A West Coast longshoremen's strike, conducted with significant aid from the Communist Party, paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington. The strike ends with a victory for the longshoremen's union. Cooperation between the longshoremen and West Coast communists represent a first successful venture of the so-called "Popular Front" between communists and liberals, which won't officially be authorized by the Comintern in Moscow until 1935. -
Industrial recovery Act
The Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. FDR launched more programs focused on the poor, the unemployed, and farmers. -
Black sunday
Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl. It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage. -
Hoover dam
During the Great Depression, many Americans did not have jobs. The construction of the dam created work for thousands of people who came from all over the country. When the Hoover dam was built in Nevada, the federal government created an entire town so the workers and their families had a place to stay. It was called Boulder City. Still, workers faced very hard conditions such as safety hazards and worked in temperatures that could be hotter than 120 degrees! -
Neutrality Act
After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” The ban on loans remained in effect, and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports.
