The Great Depression and the New Deal

By jmor

  • Herbert Clark Hoover Presidency

    Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty first President of the United States. Hoover was a professional mining engineer born to a Quaker family.

  • Black Tuesday

    Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

  • Empire State Building

    The Empire State Building is a one hundred three story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was the tallest building in the world at the time.

  • Lindbergh Kidnapping

    The Lindberghs' baby was kidnapped from the family home and the kidnappers demanding 50,000.

  • Lindberghs' baby found

    Over two months later,his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs’ home. After an investigation that lasted more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.

  • National Recovery Act

    The National Industrial Recovery Act was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery.

  • Civilian Conservation Corps

    The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families.

  • Wagner Act

    The Wagner Act guarantees the right of workers to organize, and outlines the legal framework for labor union and management relations.

  • Jesse Owens

    In the Berlin Olympics Owens showed up Hitler’s German athletes. His achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin has made him the best remembered athlete in Olympic history.