After taking office on March 4, 1933, President FDR set out to stabilize the country's banking sector and regain public confidence in it.
He proclaimed a four-day nationwide banking holiday on March 6 in order to keep all banks closed until Congress could take action.
On that chilly, overcast Inauguration Day, Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. But moving words alone wouldn't be sufficient.
He proclaimed a statewide "bank holiday" two days later, briefly shutting down the whole banking sector of the country. The Emergency Banking Act was approved by Congress on March 9 after being called into a special session. The measure granted the federal government the authority to look into the financials of banks.
The 19th amendment was passed in 1919 and ratified in 1920; this means American women could actually vote starting 1920 even though the bill was passed in 1919. You had to be 21 years old to vote.
New Jersey Plan. The New Jersey Plan (also known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
