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Stock Market Crash
What started great depression. also known as black tuesday -
Hewley-smoot Tariff Act
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 -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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
is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership -
bonus army gassed
veterans from the war -
The Hundred Days Began
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's whirlwind first hundred days began.The amount of ideas and action that began pouring from the White House even before FDR finished his speech was unprecedented in American history -
elanor roosevelt
social justice advicate for equal rights for woman, an african americans. was also first lady -
Frances Perkins
the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
32nd President of the United States. Served four terms -
John Collier
an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs -
First Fireside chat
FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public. -
Glass-Steagall 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
Was made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration -
Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; -
Wagner act
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 -
Boulder Dam Built (Hoover dam)
a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada -
Court-Packing Plan
proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
was a 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 organization
a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Grapes of wrath published
written by John Steinbeck.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home
