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Stock Market Crash
Ended a six year wealth increase in economy. Thurday October 24 was the beginning of the stock market crash. About 5 days later the stock prices decreased immensely and banks started calling in an enormous about of loans. There was an estimate that about 30 billion dollars worth of stock “disappeared” by mid-November. -
Great Depression Begins
Longest and most depressing economic dowfall in history. Happened four days after stock market crash. That sent Wall Street into a panic and cleared out millions of investors. After that everything seemed to all go downhill. -
New York's Bank of the United States collaspes.
New York's Bank of the United States had more than 200 million dollars in deposits at one time. -
The Ford Strike
The cause of the stock market crash millions of men and women were without work. Thousands of those unemployed workers marched on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan. Police and a couple of Ford's guards attacked the workers, which was the cause of death's and serious injuries to many. -
F.D.R is elected president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been elected president for the first time with a landslide amount of votes. Hoover's 15.75 million votes was nothing compared to F..D.R's 22.8 million popular votes. -
Amelia Earhart
First women to fly Wheeler field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. She was then awarded 10,000 dollars for arriving in Oakland Airport in Caliifornia. She traveled a total 2,400 miles in 18 hours. -
Wagner National Labor Relations Act
The true goal for this act was to demonstrate union authority and watch union elections. -
Dorothea Lange
Visits pea-pickers' camp in California and takes photos of harvest workers and their lives. Showed the way people lived and there emotions during that time. -
United Automobile workers go on strike
A huge riot breaks out when polie try to prevent strikers from receiving food deliveries from outside helpers. They called it "Battle of the Running Bulls." -
Roosevelt Recession
Slow economic recovery by the New Deal program suffered a huge setback as unemployment increased. This was the cause of F.D.R to call it the "Roosevelt Recession." -
Memorial Day Massacre
Republic Steel's South Chicago plant, workers and their families tried to combine a rally and a picnic with demonstrations. People around didn't agree with that idea and people started shooting and killed 10 men, with many more injured. -
F.D.R elected for a third Presidential term
Roosevelt beat Wendell Willkie. FDR's win was shown to people all around that millions of people supported his war policies.
