Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1930
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

1931–1937
  • Scottsboro case: trials and appeals

1932
  • Bonus Army marches on Washington, D.C.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president

1933
  • 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

1934
  • 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

1935
  • 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

1936
  • Landslide reelection of FDR marks peak of New Deal power

1937
  • FDR’s Supreme Court plan fails

1937–1938
  • “Roosevelt recession” raises unemployment

Question

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