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Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the U.S. Between early September and the end of October 1929 the market lost a total of 40% in less than 8 weeks. -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
CCC was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25 as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. -
Federal Emergency Relief Adminstration (FERA)
FERA was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Herbert Hoover had created in 1932. FERA's main goal was alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Declared Unconstitutional. AAA was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
FDIC is a United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Banking Act of 1933. As of January 2013, it provides deposit insurance guaranteeing the safety of a depositor's accounts in member banks up to $250,000 for each deposit ownership category in each insured bank. -
Public Works Adminstration (PWA)
(PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States. It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. Its goals were to spend $3.3 billion in the first year, and $6 billion in all, to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, and help revive the economy. -
Civil Wroks Admistration (CWA)
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Works Progress Admistation (WPA)
WPA was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
NLRB is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. -
John Steinback, The Grapes of Wrath
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, and changes in the agricultural industry forcing tenant farmers out of work. -
National Youth Admistration (NYA)
NYA was a New Deal agency in the United States that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. -
World War II
The second World War began as the beginning of the German attack, Great Britain and France sent Adolf Hitler an ultimatum - either withdraw German forces from Poland or Great Britain and France would go to war against Germany.
