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The Hundred Days Began
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Stock Market Crash
Most devestating crash in America -
Hawley-Smoot Tarriff Act
Raised tarriffs in the U.S. on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Dust Bowl
This was a period of severe dust storms that damaged agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian areas. -
Boulder Dam ( Hoover Dam) Built
Constructed between the years of 1931 to 1936 -
Reconstruction FInance Corporation
An independent agency of the U.S. government -
Federal Loan Home Bank
12 U.S. government-sponsored banks that provide stable, on-demand, low-cost funding to American financial institutions for home mortgage loans, small business, rural, agricultural, and economic development lending. -
Bonus Army Gassed
was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers17,000 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 (FDR) Elected
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Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
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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 -
First Fireside Chat
President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the first of his radio-broadcast fireside chats. FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public. -
John Coller Became Communiser of Indian Affairs
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Wagner Act
Officially known as Nation 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. -
Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and The National Youth Administration
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NLRB v, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Proposed by John L. Lewis, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
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. By John Steinback -
Court-Packing Plan
Was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
