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On this day the stock market crashed and it became known as "Black Tuesday".
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The Dust Bowl hit the great plains causing many farmers to lose their farms and money.
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WWI vets marched on Washington DC demanding pensions. They were removed by force. The people blamed Hoover.
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FDR get elected to become our 32nd president. He won the election by a landslide over Hoover.
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The 20th Amendment is ratified. It sets dates for which federal government elected offices ends. Also who succeeds the president if he dies.
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The Second New Deal comes into effect. This creates welfare programs like: Social Security, the Wagner Act, and Fair Labor Act.
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Towards the end of the Depression we say many great Achievements happen on the entertainment side. Books like "Grapes of Wrath", movies like "Wizard of Oz" surfaced. This all started to happen around 1937
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The Great depression ended. During that time period we had 25% unemployed, nearly 1 million farms lost, 5,000 banks/20,000 companies go bankrupt. It is one of the worst times in American history.
