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The Great Depression- Alyssa Spalding

By Spalding421

  • "Bonus Bill"

    "Bonus Bill"
    The World War Adjusted Compensation, known as the Bonus Bill, created a benefit plan for World War I veterans as additional compensation for their military service.

  • Black Thursday/Black Tuesday

    Black Thursday/Black Tuesday
    Thursday October 24th, 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 11% at the open in very heavy volume, precipitating the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the following Great Depression of the 1930's.

  • Food Riots in Minneapolis

    Food Riots in Minneapolis
    The first of many “food riots” across the country broke out when hungry, desperate, and unemployed men and women stole goods from a grocery store in Minneapolis.

  • New York’s Bank of the United States Collapses

    New York’s Bank of the United States Collapses
    The bank run on its Bronx branch is said to have started the collapse of banking during the Great Depression.

  • Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
    A government corporation in the United States between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

  • Ford Hunger March

    Ford Hunger March
    Aka- The Ford Massacre, was a march resulting in four workers being shot to death by the Dearborn Police Department and security guards employed by the Ford Motor Company. Over 60 workers were injured, many by gunshot wounds. Three months later, a fifth worker died of his injuries.

  • Bonus Army Conflict

    Bonus Army Conflict
    This was a very popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers (including 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups) who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932, to demand their payment redemption of their service certificates.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President
    Roosevelt became the 32nd U.S. president in 1933, and was the only president to be elected four times. He was hit with polio in 1921.

  • Civilian Conservation Corps is established

    Civilian Conservation Corps is established
    The Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Act was introduced to Congress the same day and enacted by voice vote on March 31. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6101 on April 5, 1933 which established the CCC organization.

  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration created

    Federal Emergency Relief Administration created
    FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

  • The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking

    The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking
    The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking. The separation prevented securities, firms, and investment banks from taking deposits, and commercial
    dealing in non-governmental securities for customers, investing in non-investment grade securities for themselves, underwriting or distributing non-governmental securities, affiliating (or sharing employees) with companies involved in such activities