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stock market crash (black tuesday)
October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff act
Was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley That raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.[2] -
boulder dam (hoover dam) built
s 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. -
Reconstruction finance corporation
was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. -
Federal Loan Home Act
Under the presidential term of Hoover in 1931 the Federal Home Loan Act was created. Within the act a five man Home Loan Board was created and the creation of banks to handle home mortgages provided money to homeowners that needed loans. -
Bonus army gassed
The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned. -
FrancesvPerkins became the first female cabinet member
Frances Perkins was the 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 elected
From March 1945 to his death in April 1945, he served for a total of four terms, and remains the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
First fireside chat
The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. Although the World War I Committee on Public Information had seen presidential policy propagated to the public en masse, "fireside chats" were the first media development that facilitated intimate and direct communication between the president and the citizens of the United States. -
john collier became commissioner of the indian affairs
He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945. -
Glass-Steagall act
prohibited commercial banks from participating in the investment banking business. The Act was passed as an emergency measure to counter the failure of almost 5,000 banks during the Great Depression. The Glass-Steagall lost its potency in subsequent decades and was finally repealed -
dust bowl
an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move. -
Wagner Act
guarantees the right of workers to organize, and outlines the legal framework for labor union and management relations. -
congress of industrial organization created
proposed by John L. Lewis was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
Mary Bethune made head of the division of negro affaris and the national youth administration
Bethune also became involved in government service, lending her expertise to several presidents. President Calvin Coolidge invited her to participate a conference on child welfare. For President Herbert Hoover, she served on Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership and was appointed to a committee on child health. But her most significant roles in public service came from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
court-packing plan
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 was a legislative initiative 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. 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. -
Grapes of Wrath published
American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when he won the Nobel Prize.
