The Great Depression

By xochitl98

  • Stock Market Crash

    Black thursday was a sign that the great deppression was going to become greater and it stopped the roaring twenties.

  • Hawley Smoot Tariff Act

    This act was enacted to raise tariffs on imported goods in order to encourage Americans to buy local goods. This act was also created to slow down the escalation of the Great depression.

  • Bank Holiday

    President FDR created a day where banks closed and goods could be bought by trading other things in exchange of needed supplies.

  • Civillian Consevation Corp

    The CCC was a way of givving unemployed and unmarried men money for working on land. This New Deal act was for men at the age of 18 thru 25.

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

    The AAA was passed to reduse the surplus of farmed goods so they could sell them for a greater price it also payed the farmer to kill off livstock that was not needed and to not plant on part of their land.

  • Wagner Act

    Also known as the National Labors Act was created to help workers in unions from any harm their employer would uphold. This basiclly was a saftey net for workers so their boss couldn't say if you go on strike your fired.

  • Social Security Act

    This act gave old age pention, unemployment conpention, and state welfare. It helped every one in some way wether you were over 65 or living in "Hooverville".
  • Period: to

    Berlin Olymics

    Adolf Hitler wanted to use his athletes to show that the Arayan race was superior but failed when Jesse Owens of the American team defeated Hitlers Team.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    He won presidancy once again and served four terms as a president.

  • Fair Labor Standard Act

    FLSA was an act that employers had to be very watchful for because it established restrictions dealing with employees that had never been seen.

  • Grapes of Grath

    The Grapes of Grath is a book written by John Steinbeck about a family ,the Joads, who are going thru the suffering of the Great Deppression just as everybody else but are stuck in the dust bowl, they are forced to move and find hope in California just like other okies did before and after them.