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The worst market crash in the history of the United States, it kickstarted the Great Depression.
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Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Unemployment reached it's highest, 25%.
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A public works project for unemployed, unmarried men intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor.
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Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act which reopened banks as soon as examiners had found them to be financially secure.
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The program employed more than 8.5 million individuals to improve or create highways, roads, bridges, and airports.
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It was one of the first relief operation under the New Deal giving grants and loans to states to operate relief programs.
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Created to make codes of fair practices, set prices, help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours, and minimum prices at which products could be sold.
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A social welfare act which created the Social Security system to provide federal assistance to those unable to work.
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Dorothea Lange visits a pea-pickers' camp in California's San Joaquin Valley and takes photographs of harvest workers.
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FDR asked Congress to authorize $3.75 billion in federal spending to stimulate the economy. The economy responded favorably over the next few months but unemployment remained high.
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The first president to be elected for a third consecutive term.
