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  2. 1929 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Events from the year 1929 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government ... entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (born 1858) July 2 – Gladys ...

  3. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.

  4. 1929 - Wikipedia

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    1929 was a common year ... American entrepreneur, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858) June 16 – Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)

  5. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    US annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted Unemployment rate in the US 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted; accurate data begins in 1939, represented by a blue line. The Depression caused major political changes in America.

  6. Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)

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    1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre; March 4, 1929 – Hoover becomes the 31st president and Curtis becomes the 31st vice president. 1929 – Wall Street crash of 1929 occurs, resulting in the Great Depression.

  7. History of the United States (1917–1945) - Wikipedia

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    GDP in United States January 1929 to January 1941. Historians and economists still have not agreed on the causes of the Great Depression, but there is general agreement that it began in the United States in late 1929 and was either started or worsened by "Black Thursday," the stock market crash of Thursday, October 29, 1929. Sectors of the US ...

  8. Great Depression, Great Recession: What 1929 can teach us ...

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    That's where America finds itself on the 80th anniversary of the Great Depression -- reacting to With the news that another devastating economic implosion may be nearing its end.

  9. 1920s - Wikipedia

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    The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...