Chapter 23:Roosevelt and the New Deal

By patrickchapman

  • FDR elected governor of New York

  • Great Depression begins

  • FDR inaugurated

  • Hundred Days begins

    Roosevelt declared national bank holiday, temporarily closing all banks, and called Congress into a special session; Cvilian Corps offered unemployed young men 18-25 years old the opportunity to work

  • FDR addressed the nation by radio with "fireside chats"

  • Civilian Conservqation Corps created

  • Gold standard abandoned; Federal Emergency Relief Act passed

  • Hundred Days ends; National Industrial recovery Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act passed

  • Harry Hopkins shut down Civil Works Administration (CWA) and fired the 4 million workers the agency had hired

  • Business leaders and anti-New Deal politicians created the American Liberty League

  • Father Charles Coughlin organized the National Union for Social Justice

  • Works Progress Administration founded

  • Supreme Court strikes down NIRA in Schechter v United States

  • National Labor Relations Act becomes law

  • Social Security Act adopted

  • John L. Lewis forms Committee for Industrial Organization

  • Supreme Court declared Agricultural Adjustment Act to be unconsitutional

  • FDR re-elected

  • United Auto Workers under Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) is officially recognized

  • Supreme Court upheld Wagner Act

  • Supreme Court declared Social Security Act to be unconstitutional

  • Fair Labor Standards Act passed