The Great Depression timeline.

Period: Jan 1, 1922 to Dec 31, 1922

Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor legislation.
Period: Jan 1, 1923 to Dec 31, 1923

President Warren Harding dies in office;
Period: Jan 1, 1924 to Dec 31, 1924

KKK

The Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its influence in America:
Period: Jan 1, 1925 to Dec 31, 1925

top tax rate is lowered

top tax rate is lowered to 25 percent - the lowest top rate in the eight decades since World War I.
Period: Jan 1, 1929 to Dec 31, 1929

Herbert Hoover becomes President
Period: Aug 1, 1929 to Oct 1, 1929

Recession begins
Oct 24, 1929

Stock market crash
Oct 29, 1929

Black Tuesday
Jun 17, 1930

Smoot-Hawley Tariff passes

the 40 percent tariffs work out to an effective tax of only 2.4 percent per citizen
Period: Jan 1, 1932 to Dec 31, 1933

Worst years for the Depression
Period: Jun 1, 1932 to Dec 31, 1932

10,000 banks have failed since 1929
Period: Jun 1, 1933 to Dec 31, 1933

Roosevelt inaugurated
Period: Jan 1, 1934 to Dec 31, 1934

Sweden becomes the first nation to recover fully from the Great Depression.
Period: Jan 1, 1935 to Dec 31, 1935

Congress passes the Banking Act of 1935
Period: Jan 1, 1938 to Dec 31, 1938

Congress passes the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1945

Depression Ends

Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor legislation.