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Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a key figure in several of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century: the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the Women's Movement, the struggle for racial justice, and the United Nations.
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A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S.
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It brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States.
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A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada.
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An agency created by the the U.S. government to aid the troubled banking sector in the years following the stock market crash of 1929.
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This act was designed to encourage home ownership by providing a source of low-cost funds for member banks to extend mortgage loans.
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Two men were killed as tear gas and bayonets assailed the Bonus Marchers.
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States, receiving 57.4% of the popular vote.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt issued this to try to save America from economic ruin.
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Prohibited commercial banks from participating in the investment banking business.
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Became first female cabinet member, perkins worked hard to improve the country's labor conditions.
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FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public and in his first chat he explained his recent decision to close all banks for an extended holiday.
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became commissioner of Indian Affairs
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This was instrumental in preventing employers from interfering with workers’ unions and protests in the private sector.
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A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor
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Made head of the division of Negro affairs and the National Youth Administration.
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This was to increase the size of the supreme court.
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The National Labor Relations Board charged the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. with discriminating against employees who were union members.
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An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck.
