the new depression

  • first bank panic

    first bank panic
    first time stock market crashed people rushed to get their money but banks didnt have it
  • second bank panic

    another panic which led to a shut down of many banks
  • ww1 ends

    ww1 ends
    they signed the treaty of paris and the league of nations was formed to help prevent another conflict
  • election of herbert hoover

    election of herbert hoover
    hoover was called many things on his way to presidency "wonder boy'' when he acctully didnt do anything
  • black tuesday

    the stock market crashed wich began the 12 year deppresion
  • hawley smoot tariff

    an act sponsered by reed smoot and willis c howley signed a law the raised u.s tariffs
  • midterm election of 1930

    midterm election of 1930
    happend during the middle of hoovers first term and ended with republicans reation control
  • food riots of 1931

    they broke out in many parts in the u,s when several hundred\ men and women smashed the windows of stores to steal food and about 6000 mexucans were deported
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    unemployment hits 25%

    in 1920 the average work week in the u.s was 49 hours a week and in one year it droped to 40 and steadily dropped until the end of the depression whoch lead to people not having jobs
  • FDR was elected

    FDR was elected
    roosevelt was elected and became the 32nd prisedent and was the first to be in a wheel chair
  • emergency banking act

    a new law that lets federal reserve banks to issue more money to keep banks open
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    first hundred days

    was a sample of a prisedents sucsess and accomplishments during his time of power FDR used this to help get the u.s out of deppresion
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    New deal

    the new deal was a series of domestic programs to help th u.c get out of depression
  • tennessee valley athority

    a federally owned corperation in the u.s to provied navigaiton flood control and economic development in the valley
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    second new deal

    passed many acts including social security, and housing act of 1937
  • u.s enters ww2

    after japan bomded pearl har or fdr worked hard to prepare for conflict with the axis