US History Present Identifying the causes of he Great Depression its impact on Americans he major features of FDR’s New Deal
The Great Depression Rebekah Amato TEDU 556.901 1929 – Stock Market Crash: Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 1930 – Banks shut down 1931/32 – Droughts in Midwest and Plains “Dust Bowl” storms 1932 – Taxes raised FDR elected in landslide Migrants begin to search for work 1933 – FDR takes office Emergency Banking Act Emergency Farm Mortgage Act Agricultural Adjustment Act Civilian Conservation Corps Federal Emergency Relief Act Civil Works Administration Tennessee Valley Authority Public Works Administration Glass-Steagall Act 1934 – Dust storms continue Securities and Exchange Commission 1935 - Federal Surplus Relief Corporation National Youth Administration Works Progress Administration Wagner Act Social Security Act 1937 –FDR re-elected 1938 - 2nd Agricultural Adjustment Act passed 1939 - Germany invades Poland 1940 – FDR wins 3rd term as president 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor and Entry into WWII Buying on Credit Stock Market Crash 1929 Hoover’s “trickle-down” economics Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to raise taxes Gold Standard Federal Reserve Board raises interest rates Wage/Job loss = Save money not spend I |
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