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Black Tuesday-Stock Market Crash
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
Planet Pluto is discovered
Clyde Tombaugh comfirmed Pluto a planet. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Raised US tariffs on imported goods to record levels. -
Star-Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem
Bacame a national anthem from a signature from president Hoover, -
Empire State Building is created
Building opened, lights were turned on by Hoover. -
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
Found dead from a skull fracture -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
President during middle of the Depression. -
21st Amendment
Prohibition ends -
Run on the Banks
From 1929-1933, customers deposited their money and wanted cash -
New Deal
Lasted from 1933-1938, Roosevelt made a series of economic programs. -
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Established
Enforced federal securities and laws, and regulated securities. -
Hoover Dam completed
Massive effort in creating the world's largest concrete structure -
Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell is published
Historical romance novel enjoyed by many -
Jerry Owens mins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics
won four gold medals for america in front of Hitler, which pissed Hitler off, because Jessie was a jew -
Hindenburg crashes
Caught fire and was destroyed during it's attempt to dock -
Amelia Earhart dissappears
Crashed into the sea (supposedly) -
War of the worlds broadcast
Episode of American radio drama that was mistaken as a real event -
Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck published
An american realist novel about the dust bowl
