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What is commonly known as Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed and began the Great Depression. The crash was more spread over a two week period than one day event.
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Nearly 6,000 unemployed individuals work selling apples on streets for five cents apiece.
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"Food riots" begin to break out in parts of the U.S.
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Because the circulation of money was so low, the U.S. didn't mint nickels in 1932 or 1933
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide for presidency.
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The Great Depression reached its pinocle, some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed
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Charles Coughlin starts a weekly broadcast. His listeners got up to an average of 45 million.
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Charles Coughlin establishes the National Union for Social Justice.
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Roosevelt won a second term against Alf Landon in another landslide. Roosevelt won every state but Vermont and Maine.
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By 1940, 2.5 million people had fled the Great Plains. Roughly 200,000 moved to California
