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Herbert Hoover is elected president just a few months before the Stock Market crash.
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Beginning in September of 1929, the stock market crashed, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
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A severe drought hit the Midwest and the Great Plains in 1930. This, coupled with over-farming of the land, led to the creation of giant dust storms that swept across the country for nearly a decade.
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Nine African-American teenage boys were accused of raping two young white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama
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This was an amendment to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act. It created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which released funds for public works projects across the country.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the first time. He won the election in a landslide.
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The 21st Amendment was ratified,. It repealed the 18th Amendment, ending the nationwide prohibition of alcohol.
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Established to facilitate home financing, improve housing standards, and increase employment in the home-construction industry in the wake of the Great Depression.
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Enacted by Congress to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private-sector labor and management practices.
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Provides for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits and by enabling several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for his second term.
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The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago. This took place during the Little Steel Strike, an organized strike of the major independent steel producers known as "Little Steel" by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
