1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president.
Roosevelt's "the Hundred Days" launches the New Deal.
Roosevelt's four-day "bank holiday."
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) created.
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) created.
Upton Sinclair loses California governorship bid.
American Liberty League founded.
Dr. Francis Townsend devises Old Age Revolving Pension scheme.
Indian Reorganization Act.
1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA) created.
Wagner Act.
Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) founded.
Social Security Act.
Father Charles Coughlin begins National Union for Social Justice.
1936 Franklin Roosevelt reelected by a landslide.
1937 Sit-down strike at General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.
Roosevelt's court-packing legislation defeated.
Economic recession.
1938 Second Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Fair Labor Standards Act.
Congress rejects antilynching bill.