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Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
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. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
An independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932 -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
A United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
An assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elected
He served for 12 years and four terms, and was the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Begam her work as a social reformer. -
First Fireside Chat
Discussed a range of topics from New Deal economic policies to aid for Europe in the fight against fascism to reporting on the military and domestic fronts during World War II. -
John Collier
Became commisoner of indian affairs. -
The Hundred Days Began
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
Glass-Steagall Act
This act separated investment and commercial banking activities. -
Frances Perkins
Becomes first female cabinet member -
Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Wagner Act
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 -
Boulder Dsm 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. -
Mary Bethune
Made head of the division of negro affairs and the national youth administration. -
Court-Packing Plan
A controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
A United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (commonly known as the Wagner Act) was constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
A federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.
