The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.

As chairman of the Senate Permanent Investigation Subcommittee, Senator McCarthy conducted hearings on communist subversion in America

one of the largest movements of people in United States history

Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market, and when it crashed, tremendous amounts of money were lost. Businesses closed and people lost their savings.

prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.

Granted women the right to vote

Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, drafted in large part by Hoover's top advisors. The act was passed and signed into law the same day.

Factories were shut down, farms and homes were lost to foreclosure, mills and mines were abandoned, and people went hungry.

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s).

Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion