Great depression

JonPrater's Great Depression Timeline

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    The Great Depression

  • Unemplyment Rate of 1920

    The unemployment rate of 1920 was 5.2%
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    Studied photography in New York before the first world war. She moved to San Fransisco where she began documenting the poverty life in the city.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    The Stock Market crashed and banks across America had gone bankrupt.
  • Unemployment Rate of 1929

    The Unemployment rate of 1929 was 4.2%
  • Medicare and Medicaid

    Medicare and Medicaid
    A new reform of medicine and health assurance for citizens in The Great Depression.
  • Langston Hughes

    Was an African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes
    Began writing in High School, developed a new form of popular music know today as Jazz.
  • Unemployment Rate of 1932

    The unemployment rate of 1932 was 23.6%
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    Could have been prvented with the proper water managment and crop rotation.
  • Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal

    Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
    It was thought that it gave the Federal Government too much power and passed extreme laws that were devastating to the american public.
  • Unemployment Rate of 1938

    The unemployment rate of 1938 was 19%
  • Unemployment Rate of 1942

    The unemployment rate of 1942 was 4.7%
  • Unemployment Rate of 1950

    The unemployment rate of 1950 was 5.3%
  • Unemployment Rate of 1975

    The unemployment rate of 1975 was 5.8%
  • Unemployment Rate of 1990

    The unemployment rate of 1990 was 5.6%
  • Unemployment Rate of 2009

    The unemployment rate of 2009 was 9.3%
  • Unemployment Rate of 2012

    The unemplyment Rate of 2012 is 7.9%