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The Hundred Days Began
Sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Hawley -Smoot Tariff Act
An act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Recontruction Finance Corporation
During the administration of President Herbert Hoover. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War I. The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. The loans were nearly all repaid. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. -
Bonus Army Gassed
Popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Glass-Steagall Act
Usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elected
Commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945). He served for 12 years and four terms, and was the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
First Fireside Chat
The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Collier set up the Indian Division of the CCC. The CCC provided jobs to Native American men in soil erosion control, reforestation, range development, and other public works projects and built infrastructure such as roads and schools on reservations. -
Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. -
Eleanor Roosevelt Began Her Work as a Social reformer
first lady of the United States, social reformer, politician, diplomat, was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in New York City, the daughter of Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall. Her childhood was materially comfortable--both sides of her family were wealthy and prominent in New York society--but it was also emotionally arid. -
Boulder Dam Built
Is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. -
Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
Court-Packing Plan
Was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional. -
NLBR V. Jones and Laughlin steel Corporation
Was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (commonly known as the Wagner Act) was constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
Was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. -
Grapes Of Wrath Published
An American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award[2] and Pulitzer Prize[3] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when he won the Nobel Prize in 1962. -
Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
was an American educator and civil rights leader best known For starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to bettering African Americans. -
Wagner Act
Is a foundational statute of US labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.
