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The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most -
Sacco & Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants, workers and anarchists, who were tried, sentenced and executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the alleged armed robbery and murder of two people in 1920 in South Braintree , Massachusett -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was a high-profile legal case in the United States that challenged the Butler Act, which made it illegal in any educational establishment in the state of Tennessee "to teach -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. Shown: the interior of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Friday, October 25, 1929. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
The Tariff Act of 1930, known as the Hawley-Smoot Act, was a law passed in the United States on June 17, 1930, proposed by Senators Reed Smoot and Willis C. -
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
Hoover Dam, dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, at the Arizona-Nevada border, U.S. Constructed between 1930 and 1936, it is the highest concrete… read mor -
Bonus Army Gassed
On July 28, 1932 the U.S. government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of textbook heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), U.S. government agency established by Congress on January 22, 1932, to provide financial aid to railroads, financial. -
The Hundred Days Began
On July 25, 1933, Roosevelt gave a radio address in which he coined the term "first 100 days." Looking back, he began, "we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of -
Glass-Steagall Act
The Glass-Steagall Act is the name under which the Banking Act of 1933 is generally known. -
Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
When then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as the secretary of labor, she became the first woman to hold a Cabinet position in a U.S. president's administration. She would go on to serve the longest term of any secretary of labor to date.12 mar 2023 -
First Fireside Chat
This week marks the 88th anniversary of FDR's first “Fireside Chat.” Though not identified as such on March 12, 1933, the President's address to the nation marked a key moment in his new Administration. He would speak directly to the American people over the airwaves about the banking crisis. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States. -
FDIC was Created
The Banking Act of 1933, which created the FDIC, was signed by President Roosevelt on June 16, 1933. By almost any measure, the FDIC has been successful in maintaining public confidence in the banking system -
The New Deal Began
New Deal, domestic program of the administration of U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate -
The AAA was Created
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
National Labor Relations Board v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1, was a United States Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act -
Wagner Act
The National Labor Relations Act, also called the Wagner Act, is a federal law of the United States promulgated in July 1935 to limit the reactions of employers against workers who ... Wikipedia -
The WPA was Created
Works Progress Administration. On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
In 1936, in an effort to better address the needs of black youth, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Mary McLeod Bethune as Director of the NYA's Division of Negro Affairs. -
Court-Packing Plan
The bill came to be known as Roosevelt's "court-packing plan", a phrase coined by Edward Rumely. In November 1936, Roosevelt won a sweeping re-election victory. In the months following, he proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age 70 and failed to retire. -
The SSA was Created
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, which administers the social security program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
The Grapes of Wrath, translated as Las uvas de la ira, Viñas de ira and Las viñas de la ira, is a novel written by John Steinbeck, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. It was a highly controversial work at the time of its publication. its publication and was profoundly transgressive in its time -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly called the AFL-CIO, is the largest labor union in the United States and Canada. It was formed in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and CIO.