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were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920 -
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City -
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
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. -
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. -
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, it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States. -
the U.S. The 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. -
was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses. -
presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
The court ruled in favor of the NLRB with claims that Commerce Clause allowed the government to regulate interstate commerce -
the early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency during which a major portion of New Deal legislation was enacted. -
effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -
When then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as the secretary of labor, she became the first woman to hold a Cabinet position in a U.S. president's administration. -
the President's address to the nation marked a key moment in his new Administration. -
The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. -
Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, drafted in large part by Hoover's top advisors. -
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933, a part of which established the FDIC. -
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. -
was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits. -
Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
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 Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the "court-packing plan", was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. -
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.