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Stock Market Crash
Devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Raised imported goods to protect American workers and farmers that added more strain to the economy during the Depression. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War I. The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army gassed
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. six battle tanks, cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and tear gas -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated John Collier as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1933. Collier set up the Indian Division of the CCC.Jobs to Native American men in soil erosion control, reforestation, range development, and other public works projects and built infrastructure such as roads and schools on reservations -
The Hundred Days Began
Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills which, together, formed the basis of the New Deal. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Frances Perkins
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. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Elected
American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945). He served for 12 years and four terms, and was the only president ever to serve more than eight years -
First Fireside Chat
Which marked the beginning of a series of 30 radio broadcasts to the American people reassuring them the nation was going to recover and shared his hopes and plans for the country. -
Glass-Stegall Act
Four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
Mary Bethune Made Head of NA and NYA
First African-American woman to head a federal agency; her mandate was to find jobs for young people aged 16 to 24. -
Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. -
Wagner Act
National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 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. -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
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. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression.The dam was controversially named after President Herbert Hoover. -
Court-Packing Plan
Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (commonly known as the Wagner Act) was constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organizations
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. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
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, during the Great Depression,poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
