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  The major stock market crash that led the U.S. to the great depression.
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  Lost another 12 percent and 16 million shares were traded and when banks interfered, it worsened the panic.
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  Increased 900 tariffs, the purpose was to support U.S. farmers who had been ravaged by the great depression.
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  New York's Bank of the United States collapses, creating the largest bank failure in American history.
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  Roosevelt was elected and defeated Herbert Hoover.
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  For elderly to boost consumption and employment.
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  a fictionalized political treatise that lays out the agenda of a communitarian movement—End Poverty in California.
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  Charles Coughlin's has a weekly broadcast that draws an average of 30 to 45 million listeners
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  Dr. Francis Townsend formally incorporates Old Age revolving pensions.
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  A West Coast longshoremen's strike paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington.
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  He was killed inside the Louisiana Capitol building.
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  The German-American Bund stages a huge rally supporting what they call "True Americanism".