Great depression - New deal

eleanor roosevelt

Jan 21, 1929

began her work as a social reformer

stock market crash black tuesday

Oct 12, 1929

Stocks lost 13% of their value on Black Tuesday.

hawley smoot tariff

Jun 17, 1930

U.S. legislation that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression.

reconstruction finance corporation

Jan 22, 1932

independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress

bonus army gassed

Jul 12, 1932

The Bonus Army was the popular name of 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.

federal loan home bank act

Jul 22, 1932

act passed by the Hoover administration in 1932 that was designed to encourage home ownership by providing a source of low-cost funds for member banks to extend mortgage loans.

franklin roosevelt

Nov 8, 1932

32nd president

first fireside chat

Mar 12, 1933

used by a CBS radio executive to promote an audience for Roosevelt's second address.

John collier

Mar 12, 1933

became commissioner of indian affairs date

frances perkins

Mar 14, 1933

first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet

glass steagall act

Jun 22, 1933

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.

the hundred days

Jun 24, 1933

radio address by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, although he was referring to the 100 day session of the 73rd United States Congress between March 9 and June 17, rather than the first 100 days of his administration

boulder dam hoover dam

Jun 12, 1934

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 and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

congress of industrial organizations

Mar 12, 1935

The Congress of Industrial Organizations, proposed 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.

wagner act

Jul 5, 1935

guarantees the right of workers to organize, and outlines the legal framework for labor union and management relations. The Act created the National Labor Relations Board, which manages union-management relations.

dust bowl

Mar 12, 1936

the region in the central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.

mary bethune

Mar 14, 1936

founded, Bethune-Cookman College, later as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and then as a top black administrator in the Roosevelt administration.

nlrb v. jones & laughlin steel corp

Feb 11, 1937

This case challenges the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Act) when the Act regulates activity that occurs solely within the boundaries of one state.

court packing plan

Jun 12, 1937

move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court.

grapes of wrath

Apr 14, 1939

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.