Dust bowl and The Great Depression

By zkj12

  • Beginning Of the Great Depression

  • Severe drought hits Midwestern and Southern plains

    Start of Dust Bowl

  • Millions of Pigs Slaughtered

    Needed to stabilize prices, 6 million pigs slaughtered

  • Franklin Roosevelt Takes Office

  • The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act

    Helps failing farmers gain a little bit of income

  • Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp

    In efforts to stop the Dust Bowl

  • FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

    Helps start Works Progress Administration, Employs 8.5 million

  • FDR’s Shelterbelt Project begins.

    Plants trees and other environmental activities

  • Frazier-Lemke farm Bankruptcy Act

    Stop banks from taking farmers land

  • Great Depression Ends