Major Events from 1929-1935

  • Stock Market Crash

  • New York's Bank of the United States collapses

  • unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant

  • More than 300 World War I veterans leave Portland, Oregon en route to Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass the Bonus Bill

  • President Roosevelt, under the Emergency Banking Act, orders the nation off of the gold standard

  • FDR signs the Wagner National Labor Relations Act