The Great Depression
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The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
Published in 1939, Struggles of a family and trying to find work after being forced off their land. Also won National Book Award.
John Steinbeck receives Pulitzer Prize
Receives Pulitzer Prize for the book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.
Memorial Day Massacre
The police shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago on May 30,1937.
Works Project Administration
Hires jobless people to build public buildings and houses.
Hoover Dam is Created
At the time is was a marvel of engineering and labor. Re-named after Herbert Hoover.
HooverVIlle
A shanty town built by the unemployed during the depression.
October 29, 1929
Start of the Great depression. Stock Market crashed.
1932
Franklin D Roosevelt is elected into presidency.
1933
Dust Bowl was severe storms that ruined agriculture in the US.
1935
Roosevelt and Congress passed a series of acts known as the New Deal.
1936
Troubles of workers. Photograph taken by Dorothea Lange.
1937
Roosevelt is re-elected as president.
1938
Fair Labor Standards Act allows workers to get a minimum wage as well as overtime pay, and record keeping.
1939
Trust Indenture Act was passed to protect bond investors.
December 7, 1941
End of the Great Depression, start of World War II. Bombing of Naval Base in Hawaii by Japanese.