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Warren G Harding Elected
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warren g harding elected
Harding signed the first child welfare program in the United States and dealt with striking workers -
Herbert Hoover Elected
Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary . -
Model T
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Prohibiton /18th Amendment
Congress proposed the 21st amendent to the constitution repedling the 18th amentment . -
Tea pot dome scandal
It was this money changing hands that was illegal — not the leases. -
the great gatsby
nited States. Described as the "ironic tale of life on Long Island at a time when gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession it received critical acclaim. In it Mr. Fitzgerald was at his best...his "ability to catch the flavor of a period, the fragrance of a night, a snatch of old song -
Dawes Plan
Offical givernment policy during the 1920's held that there was no realtionship between Germanys . -
Coolidge speech American Society of Newspaper Editors
He was the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death , of warren g harding in 1923 , he gained a repuatation as a small government . -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The House bill passed on a vote of 264 to 147, with 244 Republicans and 20 Democrats voting in favor of the bill -
Black Tuesday
about 16 million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points. -
Bonus Army March
Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected
He was the 32rd president of untied states ,As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggression of Nazi Germany, FDR gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and Great Britain, while remaining officially neutral. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
VA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society -
National Industrial Rcovery Act
to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and established a national public works program. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. -
public works administration
New Deal government agency established (1933) by the Congress as the Federal Administration of Public Works, pursuant to the National Industrial Recovery Act. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
he money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies -
Security and Exchange Commission
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Social Security Act
The Social Security Act was drafted during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the Second New Deal -
Wagner Act
Democrat from New York, introduced the legislation in 1935, when the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. President franklin d. roosevelt initially opposed the legislation out of fear that labor organizing might interfere with economic recovery, but gave his support when passage became inevitable. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
he FLSA was originally drafted in 1932 by senator Hugo Black, who was later appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937. However, Black's proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty hour workweek met stiff resistance. -
Work Progress Administration
Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. -
the grapes of wrath
he novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. -
Calvin Coolidge Became President
He went on to win the next election and therefore served as president of the U.S. for six years. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation spent $1.5 billion in 1932, $1.8 billion in 1933, and $1.8 billion in 1934. Then it dropped to about $350 million a year.
