The Great Depression

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  • Hawley Tariff passed

    Hawley Tariff passed
    Link Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, 1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. President Hoover desired a limited upward revision of tariff rates with general increases on farm products and adjustment of a few industrial rates.

  • The food riot in England Arkansa

    The food riot in England Arkansa
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    The food riot happened after the drought of 1930 and caused major crop failure across the region, leaving many farmers unable to feed their families. And as a result, almost fifty angry farmers converged on the town of England, demanding food to feed to the starving members of their community.

  • Scientists split an atom

    Scientists split an atom
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    John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom for the first time, at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the UK. Only weeks earlier, James Chadwick, also in Cambridge, discovered the neutron. That same year, far away in California, Carl Anderson discovered the positron while working on cosmic rays.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected
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    Roosevelt was seen as great success as governor of New York and he was the obvious choice as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1932. He selected John Nance Garner as his VP.Before taking office Roosevelt attended a rally at Belmont Park with his friend Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago. An Italian immigrant, Guiseppe Zangara, fired five shots at Roosevelt. They all missed the president but one hit Cermak.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt took office

    Franklin D. Roosevelt took office
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    Roosevelt's first act as president was to deal with the country's banking crisis. Since the beginning of the depression, a fifth of all banks had been forced to close. As a consequence, around 15% of people's life-savings had been lost

  • The Dust Bowl’s First Storm

    The Dust Bowl’s First Storm
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    In the 1930s to explain how dry it was, clouds of dust formed and tons of dirt was blown off fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. The driest places was the south like Oklahoma and Texas. And those Places were known as the Dust Bowl, and many dust storms started there. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday of Apr 14, 1935 when the most dust storms blow in.

  • Longshoremen Strike

    Longshoremen Strike
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    People that had to loading and unloading ships thought it was difficult and dangerous and it could take up to two weeks to unload a single ship.

  • First Cheeseburger

    First Cheeseburger
    Link People doont really know who made hthe first cheese buger but it is said that a chieft named Lionel Sternbergerb.

  • Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California

    Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California
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    Amelia Earhart was nicknamed Lady Lindy because of her achievements comparable to those of Charles Lindbergh. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a solo long-distance flight over the Pacific Ocean, fly from Hawaii, to California.

  • Amelia Earhart Vanishes

    Amelia Earhart Vanishes
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    In the reports they say she disapppered when she was flying over the Bermuda Triangle and her plane must of ran out of gas and the plane was never found.