Depression and the New Deal in America Timeline

Question 1

Herbert Hoover becomes president

Answer 1

March 1929

Question 2

Agricultural Marketing Act

Answer 2

April 1929

Question 3

Wall St Crash

Answer 3

24th-29th October 1929

Question 4

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Answer 4

June 1930

Question 5

Moratorium on foreign debts

Answer 5

December 1931

Question 6

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Answer 6

January 1932

Question 7

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Answer 7

July 1932

Question 8

Emergency Relief Construction Act

Answer 8

July 1932

Question 9

Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President

Answer 9

March 1933

Question 10

‘100 days’ launch of the First New Deal, and alphabet agencies

Answer 10

March-Sept 1933

Question 11

Launch of the Second New Deal

Answer 11

January 1935

Question 12

Wagner-Connery National Labor Relations Act

Answer 12

July 1935

Question 13

The Social-Security Act

Answer 13

August 1935

Question 14

Revenue Act

Answer 14

August 1935

Question 15

Start of Roosevelt’s battle with the Supreme Court

Answer 15

January 1936

Question 16

Roosevelt wins second term of office

Answer 16

November 1936

Question 17

Judicial Reform Act

Answer 17

February 1937

Question 18

‘Roosevelt Recession’ begins

Answer 18

June 1937