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Black Tuesday was the start of the Great Depression -
Herbert Hoover's tenure as the 31st president of the United States began on his inauguration on March 4, 1929 -
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a U.S. law that significantly raised import duties to protect American farmers and manufacturers during the early Great Depression -
a period of severe dust storms and drought in the Central Plains during the 1930s -
makeshift shantytowns, built from scrap materials -
This is when banks failed -
The Scottsboro Boys case involved nine African American men, aged 13 to 21, who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931 -
The "Bonus Army" was a march of ~20,000 World War I veterans and their families to Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding early payment of the bonuses promised to them in the Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 to help alleviate economic hardship during the Great Depression -
The Black Cabinet was an unofficial advisory group of African American leaders who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his administration -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until he died in 1945 -
The "Bank Holiday" during the Great Depression was a temporary, nationwide closure of banks in March 1933 -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat on the Emergency Banking Act eight days after taking office -
The FDIC was created by the Banking Act of 1933 -
a U.S. federal law that ended the forced assimilation of Native Americans and the harmful allotment policy that fragmented tribal lands -
a New Deal-era law that created the Federal Housing Administration to insure home mortgages, stimulate the housing market, and expand homeownership -
The Social Security Act is a foundational U.S. federal law, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, that created the social insurance program to provide income to retired workers, as well as benefits for survivors and people with disabilities