Great Depression and World Superpower

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    The Great Depression

    One-fouth of oth US workforce became unemployed, this was over fifteen million Americans.
  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday
    It was on this day that the stock marked crashed. Picture retreaved from: http://www.viralnova.com/when-the-great-depression-began/
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt President

    It was in this month that Franklen Delano Roosevelt, a New York governor, won the election by a landslide by offereing Americans a New Deal.
  • FDR Inaugurated

    FDR Inaugurated
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    Bank Holiday

    FDR issues a four-day holday for banks, which stops all exchanges of gold, silver, and currency through banks. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/newdeal/timeline_text.html
  • Emergency Banking Relief Act

    The Emergency Banking Relief Act is to stabelize the US banking system.
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    Hundred Days

    Many of the New Deal programs are put into play in these days
  • Reforestation Relief Act

    Reforestation Relief Act
    The Reforestation Relief Act established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the CCC provieded work fro 250,000 men ages eighteen to twenteyfive. The men were put to work building roads, public buildings and national parks. Picture retreaved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ccc_pillow.jpg
  • Off Gold Standard

    The nation is taken off of gold standard.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

    The Agricultural Adjustment Act is signed by FDR and this act sets prices for agricutlural products and pays subsidies to farmers.
  • Federal Emergency Relief Act

    The Federal Emergency Relief Act is passed in congress. This act sends grants to states for relief projects, a fouth of the workforce is unemloyed at this point.
  • Federal Securities Act

    The Federal Securities Act is passed by congress and this act regulates and monitors stocks and bonds.
  • National Employment System Act

    The National Employment System Act is passed by congress.
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    Home Owners Refinancing Act

    The Home Owners Refinancing Act provided mortgage money and other aid to homeowners. By the time this act is ended in 1936, more than one million morgages will be provieded for loans.
  • Last day of the "Hundred Days"

    Congress will pass the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), the Farm Credit Act and the Banking Act of 1933.
  • Collective Bargaining

    Established by an executive order of FRD, the National Labor Board now has the ablility to enforce the right of collective bargaining.
  • Civil Works Administration

    Civil Works Administration
    An executive order by FDR, the Civil Works Administration (CWA) must provide work for around four million unemployed americans during the winter. Picture retrieved from: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CWA-Civil-Works-Administration-Created-FDR-Franklin-D-Roosevelt-1933-Newspaper-/370942338381
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment
    The 21st Amendment goes into effect. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and ended prohibition. Picture retrieved from: http://www.kgns.tv/home/headlines/Americas-beer-distributors-celebrate-anniversary-of--21st-Amendment-284877761.html
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    Economy Turns Around

    The GNP rises by 7.7 percent, and unemployment falls to 21.7 percent. This is the first step in the direction of recovering from the Great Depression.
  • Gold Reserve Act

    The Gold Reserve Act gives the government control of fluctuations in the value of the American dollar.
  • Farm Mortagage Refinancing Act

    The Farm Mortgage Refinancing Act helps farmers refinance their mortgages.
  • Acts

    The Securities and Exchange Act and the Trade Agreement Act are passed by congress during this year.
  • Farm Mortgage Foreclosure Act

    Farm Mortgage Foreclosure Act allows farmers loans to recover property lost to foreclosure.
  • Two Commissions and a Board

    The Federal Communications Commission, the National Mediation Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission are all formed in this year.
  • Acts

    During this year, the Banking Act of 1935, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act are all passed by congress.
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    Economy Keeps Imroving

    The GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent.
  • National Recovery Administration

    The National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

    The Agricultural Adjustment Act is declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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    The Growing Econcomy

    The GNP grows a record 14.1 percent and unemployment falls to 16.9 percent.
  • Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

    Congress passes the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
  • National Labor Relations Board

    The Supreme Court declares the National Labor Relations Board to be unconstitutional.
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    Economy: Into a Recession

    GNP rises 5.0 percent, and unemployment falls to 14.3 percent.
  • Last of the New Deal Legislation

    Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Fair Labor Standards Act are passed by congress this year. After this no major New Deal legislation is passed.
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    Economy: Recession is Felt

    The GNP falls 4.5 percent, and unemployment rises to 19.0 percent.
  • War

    Depression ends world wide this year as countires start prepareing for World War II.
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    Economy

    The GNP rises 7.9 percent and unemployment falls to 17.2 percent.
  • World Superpower

    The USA emerges from WWII as the worlds only economic superpower.