timeline

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday

    the stock market crashed when investors sold over 16 million shares and billions of dollars were lost. causing most companies to fail.
  • smoot- Hawley tariff

    smoot- Hawley tariff

    congress passes the smoot-hawley tariff which raised import duties in order to protect american manufacturers from foreign companies.
  • Roosevelt elected

    Roosevelt elected

    Franklin D. roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover by a landslide in the presidential election
  • Radio Priest

    Radio Priest

    Charles Coughlins weekly broadcast draws an average of 30-45 millino listeners.
  • Pension Plan

    Pension Plan

    Dr. Francis Townsend sends a letter to the Long beach press telegram proposing state funded pensions for the elderly to boost comsuption and employment.
  • share our wealth

    share our wealth

    Huey long founds the Share our wealth society, Which made the rich give to the poor.
  • Huey Long

    Huey Long

    Huey Long is assassinated inside the louisiana capitol building.
  • Roosevelt Reelected

    Roosevelt Reelected

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president by winning over Alf Landon.
  • Strikes

    Strikes

    Labor unions begin using sit-down strikes.
  • The wiazrd of oz

    The wiazrd of oz

    The wizard of oz is realeased in movie theaters.