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Stock Market Crash
Known as Black Tuesday, low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated all contributed to the collapse of stock prices. They fell to the lowest they have ever been, plunging the country into the Great Depression. -
Food Riots
Over 100 policemen are needed to contain a crowd of rioters in Minneapolis. Both parties turned violent during the process of looting stores. Arrests are made, but no deaths. -
Bonus Veteran Funds
The bonus bill from 1924 was forced to be carried out through Wright Patman's legislation. The veterans were payed their promised allotment, costing the US treasury $4 billion. -
Ford Motor March
Four workers are killed and many more injured when a few thousand unemployed men and women marched on a Michigan plant. -
FDR First Election
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected over Herbert Hoover by a an 18% margin. This was widely due to the country blaming Hoover for the Depression, and hoped Roosevelt would save the economy. -
FAP Slaughter
6 million pigs are killed by the Federal Agricultural Program to stabilize prices. This sparked many protests when the meat went to waste instead of being used. -
Dust Storm
Over the course of three days, dust travels as far as New York, causing street lamps to be turned on during both the day and night. The indurstrial need had resulted in overplowing, causing the famous dust storm. -
National Labor Relations Act
The act signed by Roosevelt guaranteed basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engaged in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and took collective action including strike if necessary -
Lange's Pea-Picker Camp
Dorthea Lange, a photographer hired by the government to document the Great Depression, travels to a camp in California. Here, while interviewing and photographing the migrant workers, she takes her most famous photograph. -
FDR Second Election
Roosevelt defeats Alf Landon by 24% of the vote, only losing two states. The country was confident that his administration was making progress, and so they allowed him to continue. -
General Motors Strike
At a plant in Michigan, a strike organized by the United Automobile Workers after two brothers were fired turns violent quickly. A "Kangaroo Court" was used to keep the protest under control, but the situation escalated. -
FDR 3rd Election
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision to run for a third term went against tradition and surprised his opponents, the Republican Party. He triumphed by nearly a 10% margin.
