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Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
A mini crash occurred after investors started to sell stocks at a rapid pace. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
An Act To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes. -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada,dam was controversially named after President Herbert Hoover. -
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 Back Act
A United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
The popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
The Hundred Days Began
The new president's first and perhaps best chance to reshape the nation according to his own agenda and vision. -
Frances Perkins
Became first female cabinet member -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Elected
An American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Began her work as a social reformer. -
First Fireside Chat
In these speeches, Roosevelt appealed to radio listeners for help getting his agenda passed, he made it during the Great Deoression. -
John Collier
Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs. -
Glass-Steagall Act
Limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
Dust Bowl
Severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies. -
Wagner Act
Was created by Congress to protect workers' right to unionization. -
Mary Bethune
Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration. -
Court-Packing Plan
To counter the impact of the Court's decisions on the New Deal reforms, President Roosevelt proposed legislation that would have altered the makeup of the Supreme Court. -
NLRB v. Jones Laughlin Steel Coporation
It effectively spelled the end to the Court's striking down of New Deal economic legislation, and greatly increased Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. -
Congress of Industrial Organization
A federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. -
Grapes Of Wrath Published
Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a 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.
