Great depression by Zion Pruitt

By zion pruitt

  • Black Thursday

    Black Thursday
    when panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11 percent at the open in very heavy volume.

  • Banks begin to fall

    Banks begin to fall
    The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is passed. Many economists say this act contributed to the Great Depression.

  • Empire state building

    Empire state building
    The empire state building was completed on April 11,1931 it took one year and 45 days to compete.

  • New president

    New president
    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected as new U.S. president

  • Emergency Banking

    Emergency Banking
    The Emergency Banking Act becomes law.
    Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) on March 9, 1933

  • SEC

    SEC
    The SEC was established in order to regulate the stock market.

  • The social security Act

    The social security Act
    The Social Security Act is signed into law.

  • unemployment falls and Hitler host Olympics

    unemployment falls and Hitler host Olympics
    Unemployment Falls to 16.9 percent.36 Olympics caused Hitler humiliation when his Aryan Supermen were dominated by the great Jesse Owens.

  • Roosevelt wins again

    Roosevelt wins again
    Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his second term as president.

  • recession of 1938

    recession of 1938
    Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in May 1937 to 19.0% in June 1938. Manufacturing output fell by 37% from the 1937 peak and was back to 1934 levels.

  • The End of the deppression

    The End of the deppression
    the depression came to a end in 1939

  • Beginning of World War II

    Beginning of World War II
    World War II begins when Germany invades Poland. The depression ends over the next several years as the U.S. builds up its armed forces.