Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1933 Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated as president

Bank "holiday": Roosevelt closes banks for eight days

"Hundred days" legislation passed: in first three months of Roosevelt's term, Congress enacts record fifteen pieces of major legislation, including the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act

Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)

Townsend movement begins: Dr. Francis Townsend organizes the aged

1934 Securities and Exchange Commission: new federal agency begins to oversee stock exchanges and issuance of securities

American Liberty League founded: ultra-conservative organization created to fight Roosevelt and New Deal

Indian Reorganization Act: returns control of Indian lands to tribes

Father Charles Coughlin creates National Union for Social Justice: Detroit's "radio priest," organizes political vehicles for his ideas

Huey Long organizes Share Our Wealth Society: Louisiana senator calls for redistribution of wealth

1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act: continued aid for the unemployed, most of which goes to the new work-relief program of Works Progress Administration

Rural Electrification Administration authorized: federal program to bring electricity to rural America

Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States invalidates National Recovery Administration

"Second hundred days" legislation passed: a second burst of New Deal legislation, including Social Security Act and National Labor Relations Act

Huey Long assassinated: on steps of Louisiana state capitol

1936 Butler v. U.S invalidates Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act: Roosevelt circumvents Supreme Court’s decision against the Agricultural Adjustment Act

Congress of Industrial Organizations formed: labor leader John L. Lewis forms confederation of unskilled workers

Roosevelt reelected

United Auto Workers union begins sit-down strikes: United Auto Workers sponsor first strike in which workers take over factory

John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money published: economist introduces his new economic theory of counter-cyclical spending

1937 Roosevelt announces court "packing" plan: president announces his plan to add justices to Supreme Court and federal courts

Roosevelt recession: economy plunges when Roosevelt cuts federal expenditures

1938 Fair Labor Standards Act sets minimum wages and maximum hours

Congress establishes Temporary National Economic Committee: in a display of business hostility, Congress creates committee to investigate monopolies

1939 Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial: Daughters of the American Revolution denied African-American soprano use of Constitution Hall

Executive Reorganization Act

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