the Great Depression

By natashahinestroza

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
    The stock market crashes, this marked the end of six years if unparalleled prosperity for most sectors of the American economy. People began trying to sell stock for any price they could. Stocks completely crashed a couple days later and banks began calling in loans.

  • Employment drop

    Employment drop
    Over 3.2 million people lost their jobs. President Hoover was still optimistic, he said "all the evidences indicate that the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have passed during the next 60 days"

  • Food riots

    Food riots
    In Minneapolis hundreds of people smashed windows in grocery markets and ran off with the food (fruits, canned foods, bacon, ham). In one of the stores the owner pulled out a gun to stop looters, but he was tackled and his arm was broken. The riot was finally controlled by one hundred police men. Out of the hundreds of rioters only seven people were arrested.

  • Pigs

    Pigs
    To stabilize prices, the Federal Agricultural Program had over six million pigs slaughtered. Many citizens protested this action because most of the meat went to waste.

  • Storm

    Storm
    For three days a dust storm blew an estimated 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest. Some cities had to turn on street lights during the day so they could see through the blowing dust.

  • Wagner National Labor Relations Act

    Wagner National Labor Relations Act
    FDR signs the Wagner National Labor Relations Act. The goal is to validate union authority and to supervise union elections.

  • Defeating Kansas

    Defeating Kansas
    Defeating Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon, FDR is elected to his second term as president.

  • Congress

    Congress
    Roosevelt asks Congress to authorize $3.75 billion in federal spending to stimulate the sagging economy. Indicators respond favorably and over the following months the unemployment still remains high and is predicted to stay that way for a while.

  • Strike

    Strike
    United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors Plant in Flint, Michigan, The strike turned violent when the strikers clashed with company-hired police.