Great Depression & The Dust Bowl

  • Black Thursday

    This is the start of the stock market crash. Stocks drop 11% this day
  • Black Tuesday

    The stock market drops another 12%. Banks start getting involved
  • November

    Banks start failing all over the country
  • The dust bowl begins

    One of the worst droughts America has seen hits almost every state. That causes people to freak out more than they already are from the depression
  • Riots

    Riots start all over because people are starving. They need food an places to live but they cant have any of that without their money.
  • Bank of the United States

    The fourth largest bank in the country fails causing a big money failure in the US
  • Hoover

    President hoover accidentally makes the depression worse by raising the income tax rate to 63%
  • New president

    President Roosevelt is elected and is determined to make a change in the US
  • Hundred Days

    President Roosevelt started his first hundred days. With that he was trying to tackle the Great Depression with new laws
  • Entering a war

    America finally stabilizes out of the Great Depression right after the Attack on Pearl Harbor