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Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York.
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when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange
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share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
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FDR's first act as President was to declare a national bank holiday closing the banks for a three-day cooling off period
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was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
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is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development
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was created in 1934 as one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs to help fight the devastating economic effects of the Great Depression and prevent any future market calamities.
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was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers mostly unskilled men to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs.
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was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.
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The construction of the dam created work for thousands of people who came from all over the country.
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In the Judiciary Act of 1869 Congress had established that the United States Supreme Court would consist of the Chief Justice and eight associate justices.
