Important events of The Great Depression

Herbert Hoover elected President

Mar 10, 1929

Herbert Hoover, an engineer who organized food production. Elected to en proverty, and he also believed in "Rugged individualism"

Stock Market Crash

Oct 24, 1929

Known as Black Tuesday, the stocks started moving sharply downward. Many people lost their money. Prices were soon at an all time low.

Dust Bowl

Jan 1, 1930

In the early 1930s the great plains went through a series of droughts, that caused damage to there crops. There was also heavy dust storms that damaged the farmers homes.

Franklin Roosevelt is elected President

Mar 4, 1932

Franklin D Roosevelt, Governern of New York was nominated as a democratic canidate for the Presidential election. He won in a landslide election.

New Deal begins

Mar 10, 1932

FDR's program for getting the nation out of depression.The new deal focused on "Relief, Recovery, and Reform"

FDR court-packing Scheme

Mar 10, 1937

Roosevelt feared that the court would declare the New Deal legislation unconstitutional, so he proposed a plan to allow the president to add a new appointment to the Supreme court.