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Stock Marekt Crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
The Tariff Act of 1930 otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels -
Glass-Steagall Act
The term Glass–Steagall Act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firm -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Hoover Dam Built
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. -
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932 during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, during the administration of President Herbert Hoover -
Fderal Loan Home Bank Act
The Federal Home Loan Bank Act, enacted July 22, 1932, is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. It established the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loan institutions. -
Bonus Army Gasses
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
The Hundred Days Began
March 4, 1933, was perhaps the Great Depression's darkest hour. The stock market had plunged 85% from its high in 1929, and nearly one-fourth of the workforce was unemployed -
France Perkins becomes first female cabinet memeber
Frances Perkins was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. -
Elanor Roosevelt began Social Reformer Work
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements -
Grapes of Wrath Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when he won the Nobel Prize in 1962 -
John Collier becomes commissioner of Indian Affairs
John Collier was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945 -
First Fireside Chat
The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944 -
FDR elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Wager Act
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (also known as the Wagner Act after NY Senator Robert F. Wagner) iis a foundational statute of US labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary. -
Congress Of Industrial Org. Created
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), proposed by John L. Lewis in 1928, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Mary Behtune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to bettering African Americans -
Court-Packing Plan
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the "court-packing plan") was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitutional.
