America's Founding Primary Source Documents:
1933 - Amendment XX and XXI in the Bill of Rights -
congressional terms end on January 3 and President/Vice President
term ends on January 20; 18th amendment repealed - alcohol allowed
to be manufactured, transported and sold in the U.S. again.
Herbert Hoover, Thirty-first U.S. President
(1929-1933)
Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President
(1933-1945)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
CCC Created
President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes Civilian Conservation Corps
in March 1933.
Short PBS video clip.
21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment allowing making and selling of alcohol to resume.
Education: Federal Government more involved
"Until the Great Depression, the relationship of the federal government to education was clear: Education was viewed as a function
of the states and local school districts. These entities were responsible for operating educational programs.
Beginning in 1933, with the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and later the National Youth Administration (NYA),
this established relationship changed markedly... When it became clear to officials of both the CCC and the NYA that many
participants lacked not only vocational skills but also basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic, they moved to meet
these needs by means of educational activities operated and controlled by the (federal) agencies themselves. Although both of these measures
were terminated as the war economy stimulated employment, the fact that the federal government" was involved in educational activities
concerned many educators.
Source: Foundations of American Education,
Sixth Edition page 162 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see
1939 for next event...
Food: J.L. Rosefield, the man who learned to keep peanut butter
from separating, produces his own brand. He calls it "Skippy
Peanut Butter".
Anderson, Jean
American Century Cookbook. p 175
Photography:
Ansel Easton Adams
(February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet.
In 1927 Adams published his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras.
His first book, Taos Pueblo, was published in 1930.
In 1933 the Delphic Gallery gave Adams his first New York show. His first series of technical articles was published in Camera Craft in 1934, and his first widely distributed book, Making a Photograph, appeared in 1935. He published eight portfolios of original photographic prints (1927, 1948, 1950, 1960, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976).
He produced ten volumes of technical manuals on photography and over
four dozen books.
Picturing the 1930s
This is a must see! The Smithsonian American Art Museum has put together a virtual museum / theater with artwork, video clips
from the time period and music. Wander around the museum and click on what interests you!
World Fair celebrating the centennial (100
years) of Chicago
A Century of Progress Exposition
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in 1933-34
(27 May-12 November 1933) & (25 May - 31 October
1934)
5th of 8 World Fairs held in America - 1876, 1893, 1904, 1915, 1933,
1939, 1962, 1964
Location: Chicago Lakefront (3 mile
stretch), Northerly Island (artificial)
(426 acres)
Architectural Wonder:
Belgian Village and the Streets of Cairo. Reproductions of the log
cabins in which Abraham Lincoln was born and raised also proved
popular. General Motors Building featured an entire Chevrolet
production line.
Visitors: 48.7 million
Novelties: the Sky Ride, an elevated tram system that ran
between two 628-foot towers placed 2,000 feet apart (one on the
mainland, and the other on Northerly island). The fairgoers were
carried back and forth at the 210-foot level on "rocket cars."
Mattie, Erik World's Fairs Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, New York: New York.
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