Historical Events
The development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black culture
What is Harlem Renaissance?
Responsible for enforcing law of labor
Founded by FDR
What is National Labor Regulations Board (NLRB)?
An American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
What is Theodore Dreiser?
An act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930.
What is Smooth-Hawley Tariff?
A move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court.
What is Court Packing?
First affordable car for many Americans
Built by Henry Ford
What is Model T?
provides mortgage insurance on loans made by approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories.
What is Federal Housing Authority (FHA)?
Creator of the Model T.
What is Henry Ford?
Established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
What is Emergency Relief Act?
The day Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. During this period, he presented a series of initiatives to Congress designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.
What is Hundred Days?
Scandal of early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil.
AKA-Oil Reserve Scandal
What is Teapot Dome Scandal?
A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
A proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica.
What is Marcus Garvey?
Effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things. It was one of the most widely debated legislative initiatives before being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in June 1933.
What is Glass-Stegall Banking Reform Act?
The some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
What is Bonus Army?
the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
What is prohibition?
a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
What is Civil Works Administration (CWA)?
nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.
What is Charles Lindbergh?
Enacted by Congress in June 1933 and was one of the measures by which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression.
What is National Industry Recovery Act?
What is Oakies?
The 35th quadrennial presidential election,
Calvin Coolidge won the election
What is the Election of 1924?
A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
A British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
What is T.S. Eliot?
It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.
What is Norris-LaGuardia Act?
A program designed to provide a decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nation's wealth among the people.
What is "Share the wealth"