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