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Stock market Crash (Black Tuesday)
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, was 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 -
John Collier
Collier became commissionar of Indian affairs. Responsible of the Indian reorganization act of 1934. -
Dust Bowl
Dirty Thirties- period of severe dust storms that dammaged the ecology and agriculture around the us and canadian lands. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
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. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War I. The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
Glass-Steagall Act
It was the first time that currency was permitted to be distributed for the Federal Reserve System. -
Federal Loan Home Back Act
This act helped to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchersto demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt began her work as a Social Reformer. -
The Hundred Days Begin
Domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They involved laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders,domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) elected
He was the only president who served more than 8 years. During his days in office, the economy rapidly umproved from 1933-1937 but the relapsed into a deep recession. -
Frances Perkins
Perkins became the firt female cabinet member. She also became the first woman to enter the presidential line of succession. -
First Fireside Chat
FDR discussed many political issues over the radio such as New Deal, WWI problems, and economic policies -
Wagner Act
National Labor Relations- 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 Dam Built
(Hoover Dam) Being built between 1931 and 1936 which was during the great depression. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. -
Mary Bethune
Bethune made head of the division of negro affairs and the National Youth Administration. -
Court-Packing Plan
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. legislative initiative proposed by Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) was constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
proposed by John L. Lewis.federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
This book was set during the Great Depression, and tells about how it affected many families and aslo included the Dust Bowl.
