History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1533 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Black Monday
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The idea
On May twenty-seventh, nineteen thirty-five, the Supreme Court struck down the National Recovery Administration in Schechter v. United States, a kosher chicken dealer's case, Digital History records.
In practice
Roosevelt protesting a horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.
Where people slip
The anchor puts the Agricultural Adjustment Act's fall in the same year; Digital History puts it in nineteen thirty-six.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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