Chapter Chronology

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Chapter Review

Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 24

Question

This chronology lists significant historical events covered in the chapter but not all of them are directly related. To complete this activity, select three to five events and write a creative, paragraph-length story that explains how these events are connected, what happened, and why it matters.
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CHRONOLOGY

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.
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.
1935
  • Works Progress Administration created.
  • Wagner Act.
  • Committee for Industrial Organization 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.