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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.
Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, led American progressives in the early 20th century. 1906 – San Francisco earthquake; 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state; 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement; 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on ...
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.
In May 1929 he was married and had a 6-year-old son. Reg L. Robbins and James Kelly flew a Ryan Monoplane B-1 Brougham named “Fort Worth” during their record-setting endurance flight in 1929.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.
The inauguration of Herbert Hoover as the 31st president of the United States was held on Monday, March 4, 1929, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 36th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only term of both Herbert Hoover as president and Charles Curtis as vice president.
The American economist Charles P. Kindleberger of long-term studying of the Great Depression pointed out that in the 1929, before and after the collapse of the stock market, the Fed lowered interest rates, tried to expand the money supply and eased the financial market tensions for several times; however, they were not successful.