great depression

Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash

Oct 29, 1929

$16 billion total losses

Unprecedented Runs on the Bank

Oct 30, 1929

10,000 US Banks fail.
$2 billion deposited money lost.

Conditions of the Dust Bowl 1930-1936

Jan 30, 1930

Children wore dust masks to and from school.
yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. ..

unemployment

Oct 30, 1933

And 13 million peeps unemployed.
unemployment rate is 84.9%>