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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Raised imports duties to protect American businesses and farms -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
It devastated the economy and was a key factor to the Great Depression -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Began her work as a social reformer -
Dust Bowl
For eight years, dust blew down on the southern plains -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
Prevents flooding and provides irrigation and hydroelectric power -
Reconstrution Finance Corporation
Facilitate economic activity by lending monney in the depression -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
An act designed to encourage home ownership by provicing a source of funds to extend mortage loans -
Bonus Army
Troops tossed tear gas at the bonus army -
Frances Perkins
Becomes first female cabinet member -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Elected as president -
The Hundred Days
Drove a series of bills through congress that reformed the U.S. Banking industry -
John Collier
Becomes commissioner if Indian affairs -
First Fireside Chat
President Roosevelts explains policies to the american public on a radio -
Glass-Steagall Act
Prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business -
Wagner Act
Enacted to eliminate employers' interferance with automonous organization of workers into unions. -
Mary Bethune
Made head of the division of negro affairs and the National Youth Administration -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
John L Lewis created the committee when he realized that any gain won for miners could be lost -
Court-Packing Plan
Plan to expand the supreme court to as many as 15 judges -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughin Steel Corporation
Steel Corp, fired some of it's employees after they attempted to unionize -
Grapes of Wrath Published
Showed how life was during the great depression
