A Biography of America
FDR and the Depression – Key Events
1929
Herbert Hoover inaugurated president
Stock Market Crash begins Great Depression
1931
Scottsboro case
1932
Bonus March on Washington
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
1933
Dust Bowl begins
New Deal begins
AAA, CCC, TVA, FDIC, NIRA established
Prohibition repealed
1934
Federal Housing Administration established
1935
WPA established
National Labor Relations Act grants right to organize
Social Security enacted
1936
Roosevelt re-elected
1936 - 1937
Flint sit-down strike
1937
Farm Security Administration established
Republic Steel strike