Timeline and Terms

Events

19 percent unemployment
3.2 million unemployed
Agricultural Adjustment Act ruled unconstitutional
Bank Act of 1933
Bank Holiday
Bleak outlook for American labor
Bonus Army marched on Washington
Dorothea Lange documented migrants
Dust Bowl and westward migration
Eighteenth Amendment
Emergency Banking Bill
Fair Labor Standards Act
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
First fireside chat
First woman appointed to president’s Cabinet
Food riots in Minneapolis
Ford Hunger March
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to third term
Glass-Steagall Act
Grapes of Wrath
Hindenburg disaster
Hoover Dam constructed
Hoover’s statement on the economy
Indian Reorganization Act
Memorial Day Massacre
National Industrial Recovery Act
New Deal introduced
Roosevelt Recession
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. the United States
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Social Security Act
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allocation Act
Stock exchange crisis
Strike of 1.5 million workers
Thirteen million unemployed
Twenty-first Amendment
Wagner Act
Wall Street Crash of 1929

People

Charles Coughlin
Dorothea Lange
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fulgencio Batista
Harry Hopkins
Herbert Hoover
Huey Long
J. Edgar Hoover
Mary McLeod Bethune

Places

Dust Bowl
Hoover Dam
Hoovervilles

Organizations

Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Black Cabinet
Bonus Army
Brain Trust
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Association
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
National Recovery Administration
National Youth Administration
Okies
Public Works Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corportation
Rural Electrification Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration