What can I do about this employment situation?

So I was offered a job at another company and I decided to take it. I quit my current job 1 week before the next job started. Six days before I started my new job I got a call and was told that there was a hiring freeze and that they couldn’t bring me on. Well now I am unemployed, and my question to fluther is, can I take any legal action against this company? To either force them to bring me on, or compensate me since I was lead to believe I would have a job and then no longer offering it to me? Yes going back to my previous job is probably a possibility but not really desirable. Any advice is much appreciated thanks.