CHRONOLOGY

1933

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president.

  • Roosevelt’s “Hundred Days” launches the New Deal.

  • Roosevelt declares four-day “bank holiday.”

  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration created.

    • 1934

  • Securities and Exchange Commission created.

  • Upton Sinclair loses California governorship bid.

  • American Liberty League founded.

  • Dr. Francis Townsend devises Old Age Revolving Pension scheme.

  • Indian Reorganization Act enacted.

    • 1935

  • Works Progress Administration created.

  • Wagner Act enacted.

  • Committee for Industrial Organization founded.

  • Social Security Act enacted.

  • Father Charles Coughlin begins National Union for Social Justice.

    • 1936

  • Franklin Roosevelt reelected by a landslide.

    • 1937

  • Sit-down strike organized at General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.

  • Roosevelt’s court-packing legislation defeated.

  • Economic recession deepens.

    • 1938

  • Second Agricultural Adjustment Act enacted.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act enacted.

  • Congress rejects antilynching bill.