History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1523 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Blue Eagle
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The idea
The National Industrial Recovery Act created the National Recovery Administration, under General Hugh S. Johnson, to write codes of fair practice setting prices, wages and production by industry.
In practice
The Blue Eagle in a shop window, the sign that a business was cooperating.
Where people slip
By midsummer nineteen thirty-three, Digital History counts, over five hundred industries had signed codes covering twenty-two million workers.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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