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Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. -
Harwley Smoot Tariff Act
was an act that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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
A law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
assemblage of World War I veterans, who gathered in Washington, D.C. and demanded cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
was an American social reformer and Native American advocate -
Glass Steagall act
An act the U.S. Congress passed in 1933 as the Banking Act, which prohibited commercial banks from participating in the investment banking business. -
The Hundred Days Began
The first hundred days where the FDR began making reforms. -
Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
Was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elected
served as the 32nd President of the United States. From March 1945 -
First Fireside Chat
The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
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 -
Dust Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
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. -
Hoover Dam built
is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Court-Packing Plan
legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitutional. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.
