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  2. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, the banking system in the U.S. was about $50 billion, which was about 50% of GDP. [85] From 1929 to 1932, about 5,000 banks went out of business. By 1933, 11,000 of US 25,000 banks had failed. [86] Between 1929 and 1933, U.S. GDP fell around 30%; the stock market lost almost 90% of its value. [87] In 1929, the unemployment rate ...

  3. List of U.S. states and territories by GDP - Wikipedia

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    The following list includes the annual nominal gross domestic product for each of the 50 U.S. states and the national capital of Washington, D.C. and the GDP change and GDP per capita as of 2024. [1] [3] The total for the United States in this table excludes U.S. territories. The raw GDP data below is measured in millions of U.S. Dollars.

  4. List of richest Americans in history - Wikipedia

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    Determining the lower ranks is an even more contentious debate. Vanderbilt left a fortune worth $100 million upon his death in 1877, equivalent to $2.4 billion today. [5] As the United States became the world's leading economic power by the late 19th century, the wealthiest people in America were often also the wealthiest people in the world.

  5. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    Quarterly GDP growth turns positive by summer, but overall annual rate is −1.3% growth. Unemployment peaks at 25%. 2 million are homeless. Industrial production is half of what it was in 1929. US nominal GDP bottoms out at $57 billion (down from $105 billion in 1929)

  6. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States economy was mostly agricultural with increasingly industry throughout the first third of the 19th century. Most people lived on farms and produced much of what they consumed. A considerable percentage of the non-farm population was engaged in handling goods for export. The country was an exporter of agricultural products.

  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. Timeline of the history of the United States (1930–1949)

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    1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios; is effective for 38 years

  9. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The overall course of the Depression in the United States, as reflected in per-capita GDP (average income per person) shown in constant year 2000 dollars, plus some of the key events of the period. Dotted red line = long-term trend 1920–1970. [47] In most countries of the world, recovery from the Great Depression began in 1933. [8]