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Chapter 25: Crash and Depression |
1926 Miami real estate bust: after hurricane, land prices plummet
1928 Great Bull Market: stock market begins to peak
1929 Stock market crash
1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff: rates raised to protect U. S. from growing global depression
1931 Mexican repatriation: federal government orders return of Mexican laborers to Mexico
Scottsboro boys: unjust conviction of 9 African-Americans
Temporary Emergency Relief Administration: New York establishes first state relief agency
1932 Glass-Steagall Banking Act: to guard against another Great Crash, separates investment from commercial banking
Reconstruction Finance Corporation: federal agency aids banks
Farm Holiday Association: Milo Reno’s attempt at farm recovery
Bonus Army: World War I veterans march on Washington for payment of war bonuses
Franklin Roosevelt elected president
1933 "black blizzards": giant dust storms begin to create Dust Bowl
1934 Southern Tenant Farmers Union: tenant farmers organize
1936 Gone With the Wind: Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel of the Civil War published
1939 The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck’s chronicle of dispossessed American migrants published
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