The Great Depression And New Deal Samel Waller

Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

Sep 18, 1929

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

Jun 17, 1930

Raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported items to record levels

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Jan 22, 1932

The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses.

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Jul 22, 1932

Lower the cost of home ownership

Bonus Army Gassed

Jul 28, 1932

43,000 veterans and family members that marched on Washington protesting payment for service certificates the police fired tear gas on protesters

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Elected

Nov 4, 1932

John Collier Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Jan 11, 1933

Frances Perkins Became First Female Cabinet Worker

Mar 4, 1933

The Hundred Days Began

Mar 9, 1933

Franklin Roosevelts period to make radical changes to stablize the economy in changing laws.

Eleanor Roosevelt Began Her Work as a Social Reformer

Mar 11, 1933

First Fireside Chat

Mar 12, 1933

FDR used the informal radio addresses to explain his policies to the American public.

Glass-Steagall Act

Jun 15, 1933

Passed during the Great Depression, prevented commercial banks from trading securities with their clients' deposits.

Dust Bowl

Apr 14, 1935

A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies.

Wagner Act

Jul 5, 1935

It was enacted to eliminate employers’ interference with the autonomous organization of workers into unions.

Congress of Industrial Organization Created

Nov 9, 1935

Eight unions within the AFL created the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) in order to launch a campaign to organize workers in such mass-production industries as automobiles and steel.

Mary Bethune Made Head of the Division of Negro Affairs and the National Youth Administrations

Feb 11, 1936

The Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) is Built

Mar 11, 1936

Court-Packing Plan

Feb 5, 1937

President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient.

NLRB V. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation

Apr 12, 1937

The National Labor Relations Board charged the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. with discriminating against employees who were union members.

Grapes of Wrath was Published

Apr 14, 1939