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In 1930 the yearly average unemployment rate skyrockets to 8.9%
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Unemployment yearly average is 3.2%
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, steeply raising import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition.
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Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. Most crops are destroyed or eventually destroyed in the course of the dust bowl.
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While the United States is in a great depression, Franklin Roosevelt wins presidency and starts to rebuild the economy and stop the dust storms.
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The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act was an act that allotted around $200 million to help refinance mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County, Alabama. 160 more camps were built by September.
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In the fall, it rains multiple times and the drought and depression come to an end with world war 2 coming up. The Great Plains become rich with wheat once again.
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The German-American Bund stages a huge rally of fascist sympathizers supporting what they call "True Americanism" in Madison Square Garden in New York.