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Eleanor Roosevelt began her work as a social reformer
She was a key figure in the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the Women's Movement, the struggle for racial justice, and the United Nations -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
this was the most devestating stock market crash in the history of the US -
Hawley-Smoot tariff act
This raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels -
Reconstruction finance corporation
independent agency of the United States government -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
US law passed in order to lower the cost of home ownership -
Bonus army gassed
43,000 marchers that were veterans and their families that gathered in Washington DC to demand cash payment redemption of their service certificates. -
The Hundred Days begins
he offered the country a new way of thinking -
Frances Perkins became the first female cabinet member
She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. She also helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected
served as the 32nd president, central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war -
First Fireside Chat
a series of thirty evening radio addresses -
Glass-Stegall Act
This limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
John Collier became commissioner of indian affairs
with this he intended to correct some of the problems in federal policy toward Native Americans -
Dust Bowl
this was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculter and economy -
Boulder Dam Built
bolder dam border between arizona and nevada -
Wagner Act
this gaurantees 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 -
Mary Bethune made head of the division of negro affairs and the national youth administration
civil rights leader best known for starting and african american school in Daytona Flordia -
Court-Packing Plan
a legislative initiative to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court -
NLRB vs Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
US court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 constitutional. -
Congress of Industrial Organization created
this was a federation of workers that organized workers in inbdustial unions in the US and Canada -
Grapes of Wrath Published
this is an american novel which focuses mainly on the great depression
