1. Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal<br />Main Events<br />1929- Stock market crash<br />1930- Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives<br />1932- Reconstruction Finance Corporation established to make government credit available<br />Bonus Army marches on Washington<br />Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President<br />1933- Roughly 13 million workers unemployed <br />The Hundred days legislation of the First New Deal<br />21st amendment repeals prohibition<br />1934- Indian Reorganization Act repeals Dawes Severalty Act and reasserts the status of Indian tribes as semi sovereign nations<br />Growing popularity of Father Coughlin and Huey Long, critics of FDR<br />1935- Second New Deal<br />CIO established<br />Dust storms turn the Southern great Plains into the Dust Bowl<br />Boulder Dam completed<br />1936- Roosevelt defeats Alfred Landon in reelection landslide<br />Sit down strikes begin at GM plants in Flint<br />1937- GM recognizes United Automobile Workers<br />Roosevelt’s court packing plan causes controversy<br />Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago demonstrates the perils of union organizing<br />Roosevelt recession begins<br />1938- CIO unions withdraw from the American Federation of Labor to form the Congressional Industrial Organizations<br />Fair Labor Standards Act establishes the first federal minimum wage<br />Key Terms<br />Great Depression: the nation’s worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930’s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse<br />Bonus Army: unemployed veterans of World War 1 gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945<br />New Deal: the economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930’s<br />Fireside Chat: speeches broadcast over the radio in which the president explained complex issues and programs plainly<br />Emergency Banking Act: 1933 act that gave the president broad discretionary powers over all banking transactions and foreign exchange<br />TVA: federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven southern states<br />NIRA: 1933 act that was meant to be a systematic plan for economic recovery<br />Social Security Act of 1935: act establishing federal old-age pensions and unemployment insurance<br />National Labor Relations Act: act establishing federal guarantee of right to organize trade unions and collective bargaining<br />Congress of Industrial Organizations: an allegiance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930’s organizational drive among the mass-production industries<br />New Deal Coalition: coalition that included southern Democrats political machines, industrial workers, unionists and farmers<br />1938 Fair Labor Standards Act: act that established the first federal minimum wage and set a maximum workweek of 44 hours for all employees<br />