Great Depression

By morganspickler

  • Severe Drought

    “Black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow everywhere.

  • Food Riots Begin

  • The First New Deal Begins

    The "First One Hundred Days" of Roosevelt's presidency begins.

  • Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act

    140 million acres of federally-owned land out of the public domain. All were monitored by the government.

  • FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

    $525 million for drought relief

  • 125 policemen to patrol the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep “undesirables” out

  • Unemployment Falls to 16.9 percent.

  • FDR's Shelter-belt Project

    Builds lots of trees around the USA to help contribute to the regrowth of the economy.

  • Unemployment Rises to 19 percent.

  • The rain came