Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

By E-Hough

  • the start of the depression

    the stock market crashes

  • job loss

    a lot of people lost there jobs

  • job opportunities

    People started to come up with creative ways to find work.

  • the protest begin

    Thousands of unemployed men protest in front of Ford Motor Company.

  • the dust bowl begins

    Severe dirt and wind storms start to occur in the midwestern and southern plains.

  • the banks crash

    The bank in New York City collapses leading to many more job losses

  • The R.F.C

    The R.F.C is lending 2 billion dollars to banks and insurance companies

  • dust storms

    The number of dust storms increased 14 were reported in 1932

  • the president

    President Franklin Delino Roosevelt was elected

  • re-elected

    FDR is reelected and beat the Kansas governor

  • The worst dust storm.

    The worst dust storm occurred on April 14, 1935. News reports called the event Black Sunday. A wall of blowing sand and dust started in the Oklahoma Panhandle and spread east. As many as three million tons of topsoil are estimated to have blown off the Great Plains during Black Sunday.