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eleanor roosevelt began her work as a social reformer
first lady of the United States, social reformer, politician, diplomat, was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in New York City -
Stock Market Crashed in 1929(black Tuesday)
most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the. -
Dust Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
The Hundred Days begin
At the Congress of Vienna, the Great Powers of Europe (Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia) and their allies . -
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership -
Bonus Army Gassed
demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force -
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 -
FDR elected
The election took place among the backdrop of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President and Republican -
frances perkins became the first female cabinet member
She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States -
first Fireside chat
President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the first of his radio-broadcast "fireside chats." FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his ... -
john collier became commissioner of indian affairs
Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945. -
Wagner Act
this bill was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 5, 1935. It established the National Labor Relations -
Hoover Dam bulid
construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. -
court packing plan
Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus ... Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called "court-packing" plan. In April -
NLRB v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp -
Congress of Industrial Organizations
was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
Grapes of Wrath Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. About the great depression -
Mary Bethune Made Head Of the Division of Negro Affairs and the national Youth Administration
was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida,
