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The Great Depression and The New Deal 1929-1938

By NickCzer

  • Black Thursday

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  • FDR Elected President

  • Veterans Bonus March

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  • Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

  • Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

  • Tennessee VAlley Authority (TVA)

  • NAtional Recovery Administration (NRA)

  • Public Works Administration

  • Period: to

    Strikes by Mexican-American agricultural workers in the west

  • Taylor Grazing Act

  • Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC)

  • Indian Reorganization Act

  • Harlem Riot

  • Supreme Court reverses conviction of the "Scottsboro Boys"

  • Works Progress Administration

  • Resettlement Administration

  • Supreme Court Declares NRA Unconstitutional

  • National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

  • Social Security Act

  • NAACP campaign for federal law against lynching

  • Revenue Act raises taxes on corporations and the wealthy

  • Huey Long Assasination

  • Supreme Court declares AAA unconstitutional

  • Roosevelt wins landslide reelection victory

  • Autoworkers sit-down strike against general motors begins

  • Farm Security Administration

  • GM, U.S. Steel, and Chrysler sign union contracts

  • Period: to

    The Roosevelt Recession

  • Roosevelt's "court packing" plan defeated

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Reoublicans Gain Heavily in Midterm Elections

  • Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

  • Carnegie Hall concert by Benny Goodman Orchestra

  • Hatch Act

  • John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • Marian Anderson concert at Lincoln Memorial

  • Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls