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During the Great Depression, a lot of customkers from different banks, all asked to withdraw their deposits or demand cash, all at the same
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Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market cerash. 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.
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The Star-Spangled Banner come from a poem in 1814 called "Defence of Fort McHenry". The lyrics were paired with a tune of a popular British
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The Empire State building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtwon Manhattan, New York
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The child was kidnapped from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey, between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 1932
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The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936
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His first hundred days in office began on March 4th in 1933. Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal -
The 21st amendment was ratified on December 5th, 1933. It struck down prohibition and people were allowed to drink again
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The SEC is a fefera agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry
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The Social Security Act's major goal was to provide some security for older Americans and unemployed workers
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The Hoover Dam's construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and the cost of one hundred lives. It was named after President Herbet Hoover and was dedicated on September 30, 1936, by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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On August 3, he won the 100m sprint, defeating Ralph Metcalfe; on August 4, the long jump; on August 5, the 200m sprint; and after her was added to the 4 x 100m relay team; he won his fourth on August 9
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Roosevelt and the New Deal that he represented remained very popular, and on Election Day, Roosevelt swept to victory in one of the largest landslides in American history.
He won more than sixty percent of the popular vote and carried every state except Maine and Vermont -
The story takes set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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The German passenger airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station
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Amelia Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island
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