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Eleanor Roosevelt Began Her Work as a Socal Reformer
Eleanor Roosevelt also deveoped her own politican network and her own liberal ideology -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Hawley-Smoot Tarrif Act
Was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
It was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, c. 8, 47 Stat. 5, during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
Is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. It established the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loan institutions. -
Bonus Army Gassed
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. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elected
Roosevelt's strong base in the most populous state made him an obvious candidate for the Democratic nomination, which was hotly contested in light of incumbent Herbert Hoover's vulnerability. -
The Hundred Days Began
Banks were shutting down. Depositors were losing their life's savings. Businesses were running out of enough cash to keep going. At least 25 percent of American workers were unemployed. Many Americans felt it was a national emergency. -
First Fireside Chat
In his first fireside chat, Roosevelt explained his recent decision to close all banks for an extended holiday. -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Publication of the Merriam Report in 1928 and Collier's efforts raised the visibility of American Indian issues within the federal government. -
Glass-Steagall 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
As Secretary of Labor, Perkins played a key role in the cabinet by writing New Deal legislation, including minimum-wage laws. Her most important contribution, however, came in 1934 as chairwoman of the President's Committee on Economic Security. -
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; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
Wagner Act
It established the federal governmentas the regular and ultimate arbiter of labor relations -
Boulder Dam Built
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, 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. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Proposed by John L. Lewis in 1928, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
Mary Bethune Made Head of Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
Its purpose was to provide programs to promote relief and employment for young people. It focused on citizens aged sixteen to twenty-five years who no longer had regular attendance in school and did not have paid employment. -
Court Packing Plan
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" - a series of economic programs designed to counter the devastating effects of the Great Depression - faced many challenges in the courts. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
The National Labor Relations Board charged the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. with discriminating against employees who were union members. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
Set during the Great Depression, the 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.
