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Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday
The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States, Black Tuesday took place on October 29, 1929 and was when the price of stocks completely collapsed. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
The original intention behind the legislation was to increase the protection afforded domestic farmers against foreign agricultural imports and it raised U.S. tariffs to a historical high, -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932 during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
The 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
Veterans and family were ordered off government property and shot by army members. -
The Hundred Days Begin
This refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt's first one hundred days in office which he used to inforce the new deal program. -
Dranklin D. Roosevelt(FDR) Elected President
He was the 32nd president and served for 12 years and four terms, and was the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
Glass-Steagall Act
This Act refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
In 1933 Roosevelt appointed Perkins as Secretary of the Department of Labor, a position she held for twelve years, longer than any other Secretary of Labor. -
First Fireside Act
The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
John Collier was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration from 1933-1945. -
Eleanor Roosevelt Began Her Work as a Social Reformer
Eleanor Roosevelt in Arthurdale, West Virginia, 1933. Credit: Image courtesy of The Franklin Roosevelt Library.
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.. -
Mary Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She headed the Negro Association and children reform. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; caused by severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion. -
Wagner Act
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is 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. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
It was pand roposed by John L. Lewis in 1928, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Boulder Dam (Hoover) Built
It is 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. -
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
In this case, the National Labor Relations Board charged the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation with discriminating against employees who were union members.
discussed on February 10, 1937 it was decided April 12, 1937 -
Grapes of Wrath Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction.