Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1928-1933 Era

 

Date

Presidential Election/ Event

Beyond America/ Foreign Policy

Government Institutions

US Economic Development

Issue/Organization Development

Political Party Development

1928-11

Herbert Hoover v. Al Smith

 

 

 

 

Republican win

1929-10-24

 

 

 

Crash – 1st day $9B loss – 13M shares

 

 

1929-10-29

 

 

 

Crash – 16M shares

 

 

1931-11

 

 

 

 

 

Republican losses – 1st since 1916

1930

 

 

 

Hawley-Smoot Tariff – lobbyists make it protect manufacturing  not farming

 

 

1931

 

18-month moratorium – foreign debt collection

 

 

 

 

1931-09

 

Japanese: Manchurian invasion; Stimson Doctrine

 

 

 

 

1932-02

 

 

 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

 

 

1932-03

 

 

 

Norris-LaGuardia Act (labor)

Milo RenoFarmers’ Holiday Association

 

1932-07

 

 

 

Bonus Expeditionary Force (Bonus March)

 

 

1932-10+

 

 

 

States’ bank holidays

 

 

1932-11

 

 

 

Emergency Relief and Construction Act

 

 

1932-11

Herbert Hoover v. F. D. Roosevelt v. Norman Thomas

 

 

From 1920 to 1932 – bushel of wheat from $2.94 to 30 cents

From 1929 to 1932- Federal Reserve-“money supply” by 1/3

From 1929 to 1933 –  GDP drop of 27%

By 1932 1 in 4 workers without a job

 

Worse for

- Dust bowl

- African Americans

- Mexicans and Mexican Americans (deportations)

Democratic win

 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation = “emergency loans to struggling banks, life-insurance companies, and railroads” (page 839)

Emergency Relief and Construction Act = “authorized the RFC to make loans to the states for construction projects” (839)

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2016

 

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