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Great Depression
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Stock Market Crash
On a day called "Black Thursday" stock prices start to drop. The
stock market "crashes" when prices kept dropping and by the end of november the stock market loses $30 billion -
President Hoover
Presiden Hoover tells americans that the economy will start to implace within the next 60 days. The Great Depression was actually just getting started -
Food Riots
Food riots start in cities across the United States. Hungery Americans smash grocery windows, take food, and run away because they do not have any other way to get food to eat -
Roosevelt promises the "new deal"
While campaigning for presiden of the United States. Franklin promises America "A New Deal" -
Franklin is elected president
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president for the first time. Many Americans did not think that president Hoover did enough to help them and hoped -
Emergency Bank act is passed
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. By the end of the month, almost all of the banks that had closed when the Depression started are open again. -
CCC is created
The first New Deal program, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is created. Thousands of young men go to camps to work on projects such as building parks, building roads, and fighting forest fires. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority is created
The Tennessee Valley Authority, another New Deal program, brings electricity and jobs to Americans living in the southern part of the United States. -
The Works Progress Administration puts Americans to work
The Works Progress Administration is created. It puts Americans to work doing many types of jobs such as writing, acting, building bridges, and building airports. -
Social security is created
The Social Security Act is signed. The Act provides money every month for senior citizens. -
Dorothea Lange takes the Migrant Mother photo
Photographer Dorothea Lange takes photographs of a poor family working at a pea-picking camp in California. One of the photos, called "Migrant Mother," is one of the most famous photographs to come from the Great Depression. -
The economy goes through another recession
After showing some improvement, the economy starts to suffer again when more Americans lose their jobs. Many people begin to lose hope that things will ever get better. -
"The Grapes of Wrath" is published.
The book "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is published. The book is about a family that is forced to leave home and try to find work in California during the Great Depression. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs American ships at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Thousands of Americans are killed in the attack. -
The Great Depression ends
The United States declares war on Japan and joins World War II. Because the war creates so much money and jobs for the economy, the Great Depression ends soon after the U.S. goes to war.
