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stock market crash
stocks plummit and business collapse due to the crash causing high rate of unemployment -
dust storms
storms caused by drought from over farming. thousands died due to the poor air quality -
hooverville
towns built out of scraps that could be found called hoovervilles because president hoover was blamed for it -
food riots
in Minnesota people rioted and raided stores for food or whatever they could get, the 100 cops would eventually bring the riots down with 7 people arrested -
the first hundred days
the first hundred days of roosevelts election he introduced 15 new laws rapidly destroying the depression -
Franklin d Roosevelt
president who took immediate action creating many emergency programs that would further prevent any events like the stock market crash to happen again. -
work progress administration
opened up more jobs for millions and gained support from company's and people -
economic growth
the economy began to recover bring the u.s out of the depression,but the u.s still have a very high unemployment rate of 19% -
united states enters WWI
the u.s joins the war because of the Japanese attacked the u.s in the events of pearl harbor -
defense budget increased
the u.s defense budget would be increased and the u.s would finally exit the great depression as unemployment went down due to the war giving more jobs also giving the u.s the title of economic superpower