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Sacco & Vanzetti
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
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 -
Scopes Trial
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 -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
The Smoot-Hawley Act was created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors. -
Dust Bowl
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. -
Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) Built
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. -
Bonus Army Gassed
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. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Elected
presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
The court ruled in favor of the NLRB with claims that Commerce Clause allowed the government to regulate interstate commerce -
The Hundred Days Began
the early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency during which a major portion of New Deal legislation was enacted. -
Glass-Steagall Act
effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -
Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Member
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. -
First Fireside Chat
the President's address to the nation marked a key moment in his new Administration. -
The AAA was Created
The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. -
The New Deal Began
Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, drafted in large part by Hoover's top advisors. -
FDIC was Created
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933, a part of which established the FDIC. -
Wagner act
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. -
Congress of Industrial Organization Created
was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada -
The SSA was Created
an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits. -
The WPA was Created
Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administration
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. -
Court-Packing Plan
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. -
Grapes of Wrath Published
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.