Great depression
Herbert Hoover was the President during the start of the Great Depression, and is viewed as one of the worst presidents in history. (http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/herbert-hoover/herbert-hoover-signing.jpg)
The stock market crash of 1929 occurred on "Black Thursday", October 24, and $30 billion in stock loans is lost. (http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1854569,00.html)
3.2 billion americans were left unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929. The unemployment rates lowered the moral of the country. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/rails-timeline/)
The Great Depression was also plagued by the Dust Bowl which took place in the the midwest in the early 1930s, the dust storms destroyed crops, rendering farming and agriculture useless, and many without jobs. (http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dbimages/dust2.gif)
The farmers were left without land to cultivate and then were left without a source of food and money due to the Dust Bowl. (http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3373)
California at Last: Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California. (http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-109.htm)
Scenes from the Dustbowl: A Dustbowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned. (http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-101.htm
Toll of Uncertainty: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. (http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-100.htm)
Great Depression: Bank Collapse. December 1931 - January 1932. (http://www.preceden.com/timelines/72518-the-20th-century)
More than 750,000 New Yorkers are reported to be dependent upon city relief, with an additional 160,000 on a waiting list. Expenditures average about $8.20 per month for each person on relief. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/rails-timeline/)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president following Hoover, in a landslide vote as he was the people's hope to be able to get the country out of the depression. (http://history1900s.about.com/od/photographs/tp/Pictures-Of-Roosevelt.htm)
FDR set forth the New Deal, which would hopefully get the country's economy back up and running by creating reforms and groups to give Americans jobs so they can pay for their food, homes, and support their families. (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/07/20/presidents-and-their-debts-fdr-to-bush/fdr-budget-hawk)
This is a poster from FDR's New Deal, offering new jobs to try and lower the unemployment rate that was raised due to the Great Depression. (http://fairfieldschools.org/B_Level/B_RogerLudlowe/C_RogerLudlowe/03/new_deal_posters.htm)
This shows the many men who were given a job by the CCC, a program founded from the New Deal. The New Deal was helping the economy and slowly getting America out of the Great Depression they so drastically needed to get out of. (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/07/20/presidents-and-their-debts-fdr-to-bush/fdr-budget-hawk)
World War II marked the end of the Great Depression for America, after the WWII America's economy was back to normal and the unemployment rates had dropped to as low as 2%. (http://www.worldwar02.com/category/pictures/)