Great Depression-New Deal

Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

Oct 29, 1929

Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mar 10, 1930

Eleanor Roosevelt was a key figure in several of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century: the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the Women's Movement, the struggle for racial justice, and the United Nations.

Dust Bowl

Mar 12, 1930

A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

Jun 10, 1930

It brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States.

Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built

Apr 20, 1931

A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Jan 22, 1932

An agency created by the the U.S. government to aid the troubled banking sector in the years following the stock market crash of 1929.

Federal Loan Home Bank Act

Jul 22, 1932

This act was designed to encourage home ownership by providing a source of low-cost funds for member banks to extend mortgage loans.

Bonus Army Gassed

Jul 28, 1932

Two men were killed as tear gas and bayonets assailed the Bonus Marchers.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) elected

Nov 8, 1932

Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States, receiving 57.4% of the popular vote.

The Hundred Days Began

Mar 9, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt issued this to try to save America from economic ruin.

Glass-Steagall Act

Mar 10, 1933

Prohibited commercial banks from participating in the investment banking business.

Frances Perkins

Mar 10, 1933

Became first female cabinet member, perkins worked hard to improve the country's labor conditions.

First Fireside Chat

Mar 12, 1933

FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public and in his first chat he explained his recent decision to close all banks for an extended holiday.

John Collier

Mar 12, 1933

became commissioner of Indian Affairs

Wagner Act

Jul 5, 1935

This was instrumental in preventing employers from interfering with workers’ unions and protests in the private sector.

Congress of Industrial Organization Created

Nov 9, 1935

A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor

Mary Bethune

Mar 12, 1936

Made head of the division of Negro affairs and the National Youth Administration.

Court-Packing Plan

Feb 8, 1937

This was to increase the size of the supreme court.

NLRB v. Jones and luaghlin Steel Corporation

Feb 10, 1937

The National Labor Relations Board charged the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. with discriminating against employees who were union members.

Grapes of Wrath Published

Apr 14, 1939

An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck.