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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk 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

KEY TURNING POINTS: Identify two critical turning points between 1934 and 1937, when the New Deal faced specific challenges.