Great Depression and Dust Bowl

By chase1618

  • The Stock Market crashes

    on a day called "Black Thursday" stock market prices start to drop. The stock market"Crashes" when prices keep dropping and by the end of November loses 30 billion

  • Hoover says the worst is over

    President Hoover tells Americans that the economy will start to improve within the next 60 days.

  • The big drought begins

    The topsoil of different farmlands begin to blow around

  • The dust bowl begins

    Severe drought hits the midwestern and southern plains, Most crops are destroyed or eventually destroyed in the course of the dust bowl

  • FSRC creation

    FSRC helped distribute agricultural commodities to the needy. Cotton goods were also included

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office

    while the US is in the great depression FDR. starts to rebuild the economy and stops the dust storms

  • The emergency farm mortgage act

    The emergency farm mortgage act was an act allotted around 200 million dollars to help refinance mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure.

  • The civilian conservation crops open the first soil erosion control camp

    In Clayton country Alabama 160 more camps were built by Sept.

  • The Era act and the creation of WPA

    FDR,approves the emergency relief appropriation act,which gives 525 million dollars to people effected by drought, and leads to the works progress administration which, over the course of the existence employs 8,500,000 people.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japans bombs American ships at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Thousands of Americans are killed in the attack