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Session 1
1st: January 3, 1935 – August 26, 1935 -
Neutrality Act of 1936, (m.l)
What was it?
-renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months. It also forbade all loans or credits to belligerents.
What did it do?
- U.S companies used this loophole to sell such items to Franco on credit -
Hoover Dam (M.E)
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. Construction of Hoover Dam was completed. -
Dust Bowl (M.E)
The great dust storm hit eastern New Mexico, Colorado, and western Oklahoma. The dust storm caused major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936. -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (m.l)
-Beginning of Session 1
What is it?
-United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production, to prevent erosion, and accomplish other minor goals.
-passed as legislation in an attempt to cut crop and livestock
What did it do?
-It gave directives to conserve the soil in the high plains which caused events like the Dust Bowls. -
Works Progress Administration (M.E)
Executive Order 7025 created WPA. One of the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects. Including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. -
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States: (M.E)
This was a decision by the Supreme Court. This was a unanimous decision that rendered the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional, a main component of President Roosevelt's New Deal. -
Filibuster speech (M.E)
A filibuster is a type of parliamentary procedure Senator Huey Long gave the second longest filibuster speech in Senate history up to that time, 15 hours and 30 minutes to retain a provision, opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt. -
National Labor Relations Act (m.l)
What is it?
- U.S federal law that limits the reactions of employers to workers in private sector who create labor union.
What did it do?
- It defined and prohibited five unfair labor practices -
Motor Carrier Act / Interstate Commerce Act (m.l)
What is it?
-U.S federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry.
What did it do?
- The Act required that railroad rates be reasonable and just but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. It also required that railroads publicize shipping rates and prohibited discrimination against smaller markets -
Social Security Act (m.l) / Aid to Families with Dependent Children
What was it?
-The act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life
What did it do?
-The Act provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed, and a lump-sum benefit at death.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- Was a federal assistance program in effect, which was administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This program provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income -
Public Utility Act (m.l)
What is it?
- A law that was passed to facilitate regulation of electric utilities
ex: limiting their operations to a single state
What did it do?
- required that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval be obtained by a holding company prior to engaging in a non-utility business and that such businesses be kept separate from the regulated business(es). -
End of session 2
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Revenue Act of 1935 (m.l)
What is it?
- raised U.S taxes on higher income levels, gifts, estates and corporations by introducing the "Wealth Tax"
What did it do?
- It was a new graduated tax that took up to 75 percent of the highest incomes in taxes -
Neutrality Act of 1935 (m.l)
What was it?
-imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war
What did it do?
-declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk. The act was set to expire after six months. -
General elections (M.E)
U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was reelected with 60.8% of the vote over Alf Landon (R). United States Senate elections, 1936: Democrats gained 5 net seats during the election, and in combination with Democratic and Farmer-Labor interim appointments and the defection of George W. Norris from the Republican Party to become independent, the Republicans were reduced to 16 seats, the most lopsided Senate since Reconstruction. United States House of Representa -
Beginning of session 2
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End of session 2
