great depression

  • 1929

    1929

    Herbert Hoover inaugurated president Stock Market Crash begins Great Depression
  • Period: to

    great depression

  • 1932

    1932

    the scottsbro case The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931
  • 1932

    1932

    Bonus March on Washington Federal Emergency Relief Act
    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
  • 1933

    1933

    Dust Bowl begins
    New Deal begins
    AAA, CCC, TVA, FDIC, NIRA established
    Prohibition repealed
  • 1934

    1934

    Federal Housing Administration established
  • wpa established 1935

    wpa established 1935

    National Labor Relations Act grants right to organize Social Security enacted
  • 1936 - 1937

    1936 - 1937

    flint sit- down strike
  • 1936

    1936

    Roosevelt re-elected
  • 1937

    1937

    Farm Security Administration established Republic Steel strike