The Great Depression

By Parris Coulanges

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
    A market was overbought and overvauled, economic conditions were not suporting the advance. Prices began to drop as the U.S began to enter the Great Depression.

  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover
    He was the 31st president and his term lasted from 1929-1933.

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    It was a serve dust storms that greatky damaged ecology and agriculture of the U.S. The serve drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion.

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Smoot-Hawley Tariff
    It was an act by Reed Smoot and Willis C. Hawley that raised U.S tarrifs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.

  • Food Riots

    Food Riots
    Many riots broke out because of food and foreign workers got deported.

  • Major Bank Collapse

    Major Bank Collapse
    New York's Bank of the United States collapses in the largest bank failure during that time. A crowd of people had gatherd outside of the bank and just a matter of hours 2,500 and 3,500 withdrew a total of $2 million dollars.

  • Ford Motor Company

    Ford Motor Company
    Many unemployed workers at The Ford motor Company in River Rouge, Michigan. The police and the guards of the company had attacked the workers.

  • Roosevelt Inaugurated

    Roosevelt Inaugurated
    Roosevelt inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. Agricultural Adjustment Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, and creation of the Public Works Administration and Tennessee Valley Authority were things he started during 100 days of presidency.

  • Prohibition ends

    Prohibition ends
    The 18th amendment Probition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. The 21st amendment that made alcohol legal.

  • Economic Recovers

    Economic Recovers
    The economy took slow to gain back but it was made possible by New Deal programs by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • Great Depression Ended

    Great Depression Ended
    World War II marked the end of the Great Depression. During the war more than 12 million Americans were sent into the military, and a similar number toiled in defense-related jobs

  • rosevelt elected to a third presidential term

    rosevelt elected to a third presidential term
    He was elected for his third and last term for president.