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Wagner Act
conductor who is primarily known for his operas -
Hundred Days
Marked the period Emperor Napoleon I of France exile on Elba to Paris -
Francis Perkins
Became first female cabinet member -
Eleanor Roosvelt
Began work as a social reformer -
Stock Market Crash
Sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market -
Hawljey-Smoot Tariff Act
Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels -
Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US -
Boulder Dam Built
Concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado Rive -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Independent agency of the United States government -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership -
Bonus Army Gassed
assemblage of some 43,000 marchers -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elected
American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
First Fireside Chat
conductor who is primarily known for his operas -
Glass-Steagall Act
Provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms -
John Collier
Becomes Commissioner of Indian Affairs -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 -
Court-Packing Plan
Legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court -
Grapes of Wrath Published
American realist novel written by John Steinbeck -
Mary Bethune
Made head of the division of negro affairs and the National Youth Administration
