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This is the beginning of the Stock Market Crash.
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The Dust Bowl begins after a large drought, the worst one in about 300 years.
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Food riots break out in parts of United States in February and in April the Empire State Building completed.
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Roosevelt males his "New Deal" speech in July then later elected President in November.
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Roosevelt calls for a "bank holiday" where all banks are closed.
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15 new laws are quickly let out to fight the Great Depression and Roosevelt launches the New Deal with Emergency Banking Act.
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Act prohibited private ownership of gold and doubled its price changing gold price history.
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The FDR passes the act to teach farmers more sustainable methods to conserve.
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This act provided income to the elderly, blind, disabled, and children in low-income families.
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Twelve states experienced temperatures at or above 110 degrees, including four that broke 120 degrees. Killing around 5,000.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his second term as president and launches a third new deal.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII, The depression ends over the next several years as the U.S. builds up its armed forces.
