Baleigh's Great Depression Timeline

By BNJ2442
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    FDR was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
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    The Great Depression Era

  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes was a poet. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. He is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Unemployment Rates for years 1920, 1921, 1929, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1950, 1975, 1990, 2009, and Today

    Unemployment Rates for years 1920, 1921, 1929, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1950, 1975, 1990, 2009, and Today

    5.22%, 11.72%, 4.23% 23.64%, 19.04%, 4.75%, 5.38%, 6.390%, 5.6 1%, 9.3%, and 7.9%
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Deprsession was a time when the stock market crashed in 1929 and the econonic structure started to fall during the 1930's.
  • The Deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression

    The Deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression

    is a mass migration that took place when as many as 500,000 people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange as an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl was a time period when the farmers would farm the same crop on the same land which led to dust building up. Dust eventually over came Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas and migration began to California for a better life.
  • Tennesse Valley Authority

    Tennesse Valley Authority

    This was a New Deal program that consisted of putting up electricity lines for the country which ultimately led to the the need for everyone to have electricty.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    The FDIC is working with all of the states and federal banking agencies and organizations to make sure the status of financial institutions located in the affected areas.
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal

    The New Deal was a bunch of economic program in order for the economnomy to get better during the Great Drepression era. FDR used the 3 R's for the The New Deal programs; Relief, Recovery, Reform.
  • Social Security and Social Security Administration

    Social Security and Social Security Administration

    This is a government independent agency that distributes Social Security, which included retirement and disibility programs and survivors benefits.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission

    Securities and Exchange Commission

    This was created by congress to regulate security markets and to hel their investers.
  • Judical Interpretation during the New Deal

    Judical Interpretation during the New Deal

    The judical branch interprets the constitution during the New Deal.
  • Entitlement Programs and Solvency

    Entitlement Programs and Solvency

    Social Security was the first “entitlement” program created by the federal government during the Great Depression era.
  • Medicare and Medicaid

    Medicare and Medicaid

    These are two government programs the provide people wth health services.
  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    Relief, Recovery, Reform

    Relief, Recovery and Reform was the 3 R's that FDR came up with in order to achieve a better economy though the New Deal.