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Chapter 26: The New Deal |
1933 Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated
Bank "holiday": Roosevelt closes banks for eight days
"Hundred days": Congress enacts record fifteen pieces of major legislation
Townsend movement: organizes the aged
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission: to oversee stock exchanges and issuance of securities
Indian Reorganization Act: returns control of Indian lands to tribes
1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act: work-relief programs such as the Works Progress Administration
Rural Electrification Administration: federal program to bring electricity to rural America
Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States: invalidates National Recovery Administration
Share Our Wealth Society: Huey Long’s plan
"Second hundred days": included Social Security Act and National Labor Relations Act
National Union for Social Justice: Father Charles Coughlin organizes political vehicles for his ideas
Huey Long assassinated
1936 Butler v. U.S: invalidates Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress of Industrial Organizations: confederation of unskilled workers
Sit-down strikes: United AutoWorkers
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: John Maynard Keynes’ theory of counter-cyclical spending
1937 Court "packing" plan
Roosevelt recession: result of cuts in federal expenditures
1938 Fair Labor Standards Act: minimum wages/maximum hours
1939 Marian Anderson concert: denied the use of Constitution Hall by Daughters of the American Revolution, African-American soprano sings on steps of Lincoln Memorial
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