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The Great Depression
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Black Thursday
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Black Tuesday
The market crashes further, with more than 16 million shares sold, marking the beginning of the Great Depression. -
The dust bowl begins
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
this raised taxes on 900 imports -
Foreign Laborers
Resentment for foreign laborers grew. More than 6,000 Mexican Americans were deported during the month. -
Food Riots
Food riots begin in Minneapolis, where men and women demolish a grocery store and take canned goods, fruit, and meat. The shop owner is injured. A force of 100 police officers fought the riot and arrested seven people -
The New Deal
This was a series of wide reaching economic, social, and political reforms which had begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938, in response to the Great Depression, which had started in 1929. -
FDR Takes office
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. -
Mass Bank shutdown
More than 11,000 of the nation's 25,000 banks have closed. -
The resolve of the Great Depression
with The New Deal, the U.S saw a reduction in the great depression. -
World War 2
The Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated,