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The Hundred Days Begin
Marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris. -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
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. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
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. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
A United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
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. -
John Collier Became Commissioner of the Indian Affairs
Was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. (1933-1945) -
Fances Perkins Became First Feamale Cabinet Member
She helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Elected
Commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Eleanor Roosevelt Began Her Work as a Social Reformer
Was an American politician. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. -
First Fireside Chat
A series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Glass-Steagall Act
Limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
Was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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. -
Wagner Act
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. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (commonly known as the Wagner Act) was constitutional. It effectively spelled the end to the Court's striking down of New Deal economic legislation, and greatly increased Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. -
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. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when he won the Nobel Prize in 1962.
