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Stock market crashes and begins the great depression.
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Was a tariff placed upon imported goods that raised the tariff higher than it ever was previously.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is created and gave 2 billion dollars to local and state gov'ernments.
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The act that seperated commercial and investment banking.
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This act Lowered the price of Home Ownership.
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When Veteran Protesters where gassed by police after protesting in washinton D.C. over a bill.
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The first 100 days of FDR's presidency when he attempted to reverse the troubles of the great depression which was mildly successful.
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Elanor Roosevelt begins work as a social reformer to help better women's rights, and racial justice.
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FDR is elected president
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FDR does his first radio "fireside" chats.
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John Collier becomes Commisioner of Indian Affairs and starts reforming the treatment of Native Americans.
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Frances Perkins Becomes first woman to become cabinet member
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Happened after a drought loosened the dirt on the ground and when winds blew caused dust storms.
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Created the National Labor Relations Board to protect workers right to unionization
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The CIO is created.
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The Hoover Dam, which cost 43 million dollars at the time,
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The civil rights leader Mary Bethune is made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs, or the "Black Cabinet", and the National Youth Administration.
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When President Roosevelt increased the max number of judges to the supreme court to 15.
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Case in which congress said that the National Labor Relations Act was considered Constituional.
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Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is published.
