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| CHAPTER 28 | NEW DEAL AMERICA | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1931 |
Scottsboro case |
| November 1932 |
Roosevelt defeated Hoover |
| February 1933 |
Twentieth Amendment ratified |
| March 4, 1933 |
Roosevelt inaugurated |
| March 9 to June
16, 1933 |
Hundred Days |
| March 9, 1933 |
Emergency Banking Relief Act |
| March 31, 1933 |
CCC established |
| April 19, 1933 |
United States abandoned the gold standard |
| May 12, 1933 |
First Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| May 18, 1933 |
Tennessee Valley Act |
| May 27, 1933 |
Federal Securities Act |
| June 16, 1933 |
National Industrial Act |
| June 16, 1933 |
Glass-Steagall Banking Act |
| December 1933 |
Twenty-First Amendment ratified |
| May 1935 |
NIRA ruled unconstitutional |
| 1935 |
Wagner Act or National Labor Relations Act |
| 1935 |
Social Security Act |
| 1935 |
Revenue Act or Wealth Tax Act |
| 1935 |
Huey Long assassinated |
| 1936 |
AFL expelled the CIO |
| January 1936 |
U.S. v. Butler |
| November 1936 |
FDR reelected |
| 1937 |
Court-packing controversy |
| 1937 |
Recession |
| 1938 |
Fair Labor Standards Act |
| 1938 |
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act |
| 1938 |
Second Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| 1938 |
Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act |
| 1939 |
Gone with the Wind |
| 1939 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1940 |
Native Son |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Depict the character and appeal of FDR.
- Characterize the sources for New Deal legislation.
- Explain the New Deal approaches to the problems of recovery in industry and
agriculture.
- Delineate the criticisms made of the New Deal by the left and the right.
- Describe New Deal efforts to deal with unemployment and welfare.
- Assess the changes in the United States wrought by the New Deal.
- Appreciate the cultural changes of the thirties.
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