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It was a time of great creativity in musical, theatrical, and visual arts but was perhaps most associated with literature -
Sacco and Vanzetti went on trial for their lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 21, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County, for the Braintree robbery and murders.
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The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925,
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
The Smoot-Hawley Act was created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors.
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
In December 1931, he called on Congress to establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The corporation was authorized to loan money to banks, railroads and other institutions. -
Hoover Dam, formerly called Boulder Dam, dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, at the Arizona-Nevada border, U.S. Constructed between 1930 and 1936 -
On July 28, 1932 the U.S. government attacked World War I veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas, under the leadership of textbook heroes Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The Glass-Steagall Act effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
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Frances Perkins became the 1st woman appointed to a presidential Cabinet when she was sworn in as Secretary of Labor on March 4, 1933
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Though not identified as such on March 12, 1933, the President's address to the nation marked a key moment in his new Administration.
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Banks were in crisis, and nearly a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Wages and salaries declined significantly, as did production -
On June 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933, a part of which established the FDIC. -
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. -
is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.
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Works Progress Administration. On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. -
In 1936, in an effort to better address the needs of black youth, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Mary McLeod Bethune as Director of the NYA's Division of Negro Affairs. -
The bill came to be known as Roosevelt's "court-packing plan", a phrase coined by Edward Rumely. -
. The court ruled in favor of the NLRB with claims that Commerce Clause allowed the government to regulate interstate commerce.
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The Grapes of Wrath has captured the American imagination, pulling back the curtain on a way of life that most of us could scarcely imagine, and showing us the powerful ways that literature can touch society.