The Great Depression

By AmyGVelaz

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
    Investors would put money into stocks they did not have yet. Stock market crash which made people sell their shares for less money and everyone lost there fortunes.

  • Hoover Dam

    Hoover Dam
    a dam on the Colorado river built during the Great Depression. This was a public project which provided jobs. This dam is one of the only affects things Hoover did for this country.

  • Scottsboro Case

    Scottsboro Case
    The Scottsboro case was a case against 9 young black men who were falsely accused of raping two white woman on train. Deputies were able to pressure the two woman into accusing the nine men.

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Reconstruction Finance Corporation
    agency provided emergency relief to large business. Also insurance companies and banks. Financial support to state and local government. Made loans.

  • Bonus March

    Bonus March
    A group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 U.S. WW1 veterans. The veterans had their families gather in D.C. to demand cash redemption of their service certificates.

  • New Deal

    New Deal
    A program to set solve the problems of the Great Depression. This deal made focused on economic recovery and financial reform. Got public work jobs. This deal was made by Roosevelt.

  • Bank Holiday

    Bank Holiday
    All banks are closed until government examiners could investigate their financial condition. Banks were only able to pay debt to reopen or offered a loan.

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    A dust storm stripped topsoil from desiccated South Dakota farmlands in just one of a series of severe dust storms.

  • Dust Bowl pt.2

    Dust Bowl pt.2
    A two day dust storm removed massive amounts of topsoil. One of the worst dust storm. This soil were Great Plains.

  • WPA

    WPA
    (Work Progress Administration) A part of the new deal plan. They helped the American Citizens gain jobs more easily. Constructions of many public buildings and roads are some examples of job offers.

  • New Deal pt.2

    New Deal pt.2
    Created in order to protect labor organizing. Created the social security act, along with help aid famers and migrant workers.

  • Flint sit-down strike

    Flint sit-down strike
    Most important strike in American History. This changed the Untied Automobile Worker from a collection of isolated individuals into a major union.