Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Scottsboro case: trials and appeals

Bonus Army marches on Washington, D.C.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president

FDR’s inaugural address and first fireside chats

Emergency Banking Act begins the Hundred Days

FDR takes U.S. off the gold standard

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) created

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) established

Townsend Clubs promote Old Age Revolving Pension Plan

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) created

Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) founded

Indian Reorganization Act

Senator Huey Long promotes Share Our Wealth Society

Father Charles Coughlin founds National Union for Social Justice

Supreme Court voids NIRA in Schechter v. United States

National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

Social Security Act creates old-age pension system

Works Progress Administration (WPA) created

Rural Electrification Administration (REA) established

Supreme Court voids Agricultural Adjustment Act

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) formed

Landslide reelection of FDR marks peak of New Deal power

FDR’s Supreme Court plan fails

“Roosevelt recession” raises unemployment