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The Great Depression

Published on Dec 04, 2015

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WHAT WAS THE DUST BOWL?

  • Was a severe time and caused a bad storm
  • It was called the dirty thirties
  • It had bad storms

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

  • 950 banks closed
  • People became jobless
  • America got a new president fdr
  • Many men became hobos
  • Fdr stands for Franklin Delnor Roosevelt

THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE DUSTBOWL.

  • Farmers failed to apply farmland
  • Soil was blowing up from the ground
  • Many farmers lost there land /farms because of the dustbowl

STUFF BEFORE THE DUSTBOWL.

  • Farmers didn't share great wealth in the 1920s
  • The value of the stocks fell
  • Hoover hoped that charities could help people

OTHER STUFF ABOUT THE DUSTBOWL.

  • European countries were not willing to buy meat products
  • Company's had a hard time getting money
  • Harley Smoot terrif act was passed by congress in 1930

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