HSB

By lexipenke

  • Hoover became president

    Hoover became president

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    Stock Market Crash

  • Legalized gambling

    Legalized gambling
    To bring Nevada out of the Great Depression gambling was legalized.

  • Farm prices drop

    Farm prices drop
    farm prices are about 65 percent of what they were about 20 years earlier

  • Tax Raised

    Tax Raised

  • Average American income drops

    Average American income drops
    Drops 40%

  • FDR Inauguration

    FDR Inauguration

  • Social Security

    Social Security
    Enacted in the U.S.

  • Wage increase

    Wage increase
    Minimum wages start at 25 cents an hour and increase to 40 cents per hour within six years

  • Pearl Harbor/Beginning of WW2

    Pearl Harbor/Beginning of WW2

  • Credit Card

    Credit Card
    First modern credit card introduced

  • Gross national product more than doubled

    Gross national product more than doubled
    from $200 billion to $500 billion