The Great Depression Timeline

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday

    This was the entire start of the Great Depression, and all the stock markets started to crash. Causing many people to have no money or jobs at all.
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    Dust Bowel

    the dust bowl was important because it caused farmers to leave their belongs and only take what was necessary and what they could make room for. It made some people lose their jobs as well, and suffer.
  • Empire State Building

    Empire State Building

    this also brought many job available for men in need of work.
  • Hoover Damn

    Hoover Damn

    This created jobs for 5,000 mean who didn’t have them, and its also provide electricity for Las Vegas.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    he implemented his New Deal Domestic agenda in response to the worse economic crisis
  • Trust Indenture Act

    Trust Indenture Act

    Enacted on August 3, the Trust Indenture Act supplemented the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to debt securities and their public distribution, containing a variety of provisions protecting the holders of debt securities covered by an indenture.
  • SEC Opens Regional Offices

    SEC Opens Regional Offices

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened regional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle.
  • Revenue Act

    Revenue Act

    The Revenue Act, backed by investment management firms, accorded special tax treatment to open-ended mutual funds, which the legislation dubbed "mutual investment companies," making them more attractive to investors.
  • Hindenburg disaster

    Hindenburg disaster

    IT LED DIRECTLY TO THE END OF THE EAR OF THE AIRSHIP, PROVED EMBRASSING FOR THE NAZIS
  • NASD created

    Under the terms of the Maloney Act, the National Association of Securities Dealers registered on August 7 as a self-regulatory organization. By year end, over 2,600 broker-dealer firms joined the NASD
  • Douglas Named to Supreme Court

    Douglas Named to Supreme Court

    SEC Chairman William O. Douglas was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, forming a solid New Deal majority. He became the longest-serving Associate Justice to date, retiring in 1975
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    institutionalized the falling standards of living of the Depression through wage and price controls, and extensive rationing of consumer goods and services.