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The Hundred Days Began
Period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis -
Black Tuesday
most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
Hawley- Smoot Tarrif Act
raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.[2] -
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
US federal law passed in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
me 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups who gathered to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Glass Steagall Act
four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks -
First Fireside Chat
A series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Dust Bowl
eriod of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies. -
Wagner Act
Guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work. -
NLRB v Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.
Declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitutional. Effectively spelled the end to the Court's striking down of New Deal economic legislation -
Congress of Industriall Organized
was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. -
Grapes of Wrath
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.
