| 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 created.
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| 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.
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| 1935 | - Works Progress Administration created.
- Wagner Act.
- Committee for Industrial Organization founded.
- Social Security Act.
- Father Charles Coughlin begins National Union for Social Justice.
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| 1936 | - Franklin Roosevelt reelected by a landslide.
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| 1937 | - Sit-down strike at General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.
- Roosevelt’s court-packing legislation defeated.
- Economic recession.
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| 1938 | - Second Agricultural Adjustment Act.
- Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Congress rejects antilynching bill.
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