The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression

By acaylor

  • The great Depression begins

    The stock market officially crashed and millions were beginning to lose their jobs and homes.

  • Job Loss

    By early 1930 around 3.2 million people had lost their jobs.

  • Creative Job Opportunities

    People started to come up with created ways to find work.

  • Job Protests

    Thousands of unemployed men protest in front of Ford Motor Company.

  • The Dust Bowl begins

    Severe dirt and wind storms start to occur in the Midwestern and southern plains.

  • New York bank crashes

    The bank in New York City collapses leading to many more job losses.

  • The R.F.C

    The R.F.C is lending 2 billion dollars to banks and insurance companies.

  • Dust Storms

    The number of dust storms kept increasing and there was 14 reported in 1932.

  • The President

    President Franklin Delino Roosevelt was elected.

  • Re-elected

    FDR is reelected and beat the Kansas Governor.