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First woman appointed to president’s Cabinet
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the appointment of Frances Perkins as the secretary of labor, the first woman appointed to a president’s Cabinet.
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Ford Hunger March
Thousands of unemployed workers marched at the Ford Motor Company’s Dearborn, Michigan, plant to demand hunger and job relief. Police fired on the crowd, killing three demonstrators.
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Glass-Steagall Act
The Glass-Steagall Act encouraged credit expansion by increasing bank reserves.
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Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath was published. The book told the story of an Oklahoma sharecropper family forced to migrate to California in search of work. The book instantly became a literary emblem of the Great Depression and soon earned the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in his selection for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Hindenburg disaster
The German passenger airship Hindenburg was destroyed in a disastrous fire as it tried to land near Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-seven aboard were killed. A radio broadcaster assigned to cover the ship’s arrival described the disaster as it happened, declaring, “Oh, the humanity!”
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Hoover Dam constructed
The Hoover Dam (originally called the Boulder Dam) was constructed on the Colorado River downstream from the Grand Canyon.
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Indian Reorganization Act
John Collier persuaded Congress to pass the Indian Reorganization Act, which terminated the allotment program of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887; provided funds for tribes to purchase new land; offered government recognition of tribal constitutions; and repealed prohibitions on Native American languages and customs. Later the same year, federal grants were provided to local school districts, hospitals, and social welfare agencies to assist American Indians.
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Memorial Day Massacre
A Memorial Day steel workers strike in Chicago turned violent when tensions between demonstrators and police peaked. The police threw tear-gas bombs into the crowd and opened fire on the demonstrators. Ten people were killed and dozens more injured.
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Roosevelt Recession
The economy relapsed in the “Roosevelt Recession.” Encouraged by the successes he saw resulting from New Deal programs, President Roosevelt felt the economy had turned around and he cut spending. At that point, companies failed, unemployment rose, and the stock market fell. Roosevelt responded with a new spending program, and the economy largely returned to pre-1937 levels by the middle of 1938.
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Social Security Act
President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which established benefits for the elderly, the blind, the handicapped, dependent women and children, and the unemployed.