Great Depression Matthew Sink

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Began her work as a social reformer.
  • Stock market crash

    Stock market crash

    The stock market crashed giving the name black tuesday, it signaled 10 year great depression.
  • Hawley-Smoot Tarriff Act

    Hawley-Smoot Tarriff Act

    Raised Tariffs on 20,000 goods to record levels
  • Federal loan bank act

    Federal loan bank act

    Lowered cost of home ownership
  • Glass-Steagall Act

    Glass-Steagall Act

    Four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities
  • John Collier

    John Collier

    He Became Commisioner of indian affairs
  • Frances Perkins

    Frances Perkins

    Became first female cabinet member
  • FDR Elected

    FDR Elected

    Francklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President
  • 100 Days

    100 Days

    100 day plan by FDR to measure his effectivness in office.
  • First Fireside Chat

    First Fireside Chat

    First informal address by Roosevelt to citzens
  • Mary Bethune

    Mary Bethune

    She was made head of the Divison of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canada.
  • Wagner Act

    Wagner Act

    Basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions
  • Boulder Dam(Hoover Dam)

    Boulder Dam(Hoover Dam)

    Hoover dam built and dedicated impounding Lake Mead.
  • Court-Packing

    Court-Packing

    Proposed to add more justices to Supreme Court
  • NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation

    NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation

    Determined National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitusional.
  • Grapes Of Wrath

    Grapes Of Wrath

    Grapes of Wrath was written by John Steinback and set during great depersion.
  • Congress of industrial organization created

    Congress of industrial organization created

    Congress of industrial organization created, and organized industrial unions.
  • Bonus Army Gassed

    Bonus Army Gassed

    Bonus army Shot and Tear gassed resulting in casulties of many people including a baby.