The great Depression

  • The crash of stock market

    Stock market Crashed in 1929 of October 24.This day is also known as Black tuesday. Many people used loans to pay the stock market and could not pay it back to banks.
  • The unemployed

    More than 3.5 billion people in U.S were jobless or unemployed
    Hoover was not able to fix this problem and said that it will pass in 60 days.
  • Bonus

    Bonus Bill was passed for the veterans during WWI.Hoover was againist this bill and said it will cost $4 Billion dollars to U.S Treasury
  • Homeless

    More than 750,000 people dependented on the New york Relif program
  • New president

    president Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as president
  • The Federal Emergency Relief Administration

    The Federal Emergency Relief Administration is created by congress .
  • Dust bowl

    A three-day dust storm blows an estimated 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest and deposits it as far east as New York and Boston.
  • Photography

    Photographer Dorothea Lange took pictures of people to show how it is like during the great Depression
  • second term of Presidency

    Defeating Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon, FDR is elected to his second term as president, winning every state in the Union except Maine and Vermont.
  • The sagging Economy

    FDR asks congress to spend 3.5 billion dollars in the economy
  • Third term

    FDR is elected again For the tird time in 1940