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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. Caused Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
Was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US during the 1930s; severe drought . -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Boulder Dam(Hoover Dam)
Concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada.During the Great Depression -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Established by congress to provide finaical aid to railroads, financial institutions, and buisness corporations. -
Federal Loan Home Bank Act
Passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. It established the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loan institutions -
Bonus Army Gassed
World War I veterans, their families, gathered in Washington, D.C.to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Tanks & shots were used -
First Hundred Days beings
This began an unprecedented period of experimentation during which Roosevelt tried different methods to ease the Depression; if they failed, he tried something else. Most effective. -
Eleanor Roosevelt Begins her work
First Lady, she was already deeply involved in human rights and social justice issues. Continuing her work on behalf of all people, she advocated equal rights for women, African-Americans and Depression-era workers bringing inspiration and attention to their causes. -
Frances Perkins 1st Female Cabinet Member
The first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition -
John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian affairs
introduced the Indian New Deal with Congress' passage of the Indian Reorganization Act .Native American advocate. served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs In FDR. -
Franklin D Roosevelt Elected.
32 president. He served for 12 years and four terms, and was the only president ever to serve more than eight years.leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
First Fireside Chat
President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the first of his radio-broadcast fireside chats. FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public. -
Glass–Steagall Act
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. -
Wagner Act
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. -
Mary Bethune Head of Negro Affairs
Became a member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, sharing the concerns of black people. Black Cabinet, a group of federally appointed black officials who met regularly to plan strategy and set black priorities for social change -
Court Packing Plan
Was 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 -
NLRB v. jones & laughlin steel corp
United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act . It effectively spelled the end to the Court's striking down of New Deal economic legislation, and greatly increased Congress's power -
First Congress of Industrial Organizations Created
e CIO was committed to organizing all workers -- skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled -- on an industrial basis rather than more narrowly by craft. Open to all. -
Grapes Of Wrath Published
Written by John Steinbeck a this story vividly portrays life during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in America as it follows a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers traveling westward. Very Popular
