The Election of 1928 and the 1929 Stock Market Crash

Election of 1928
    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 
    Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944)

Black Thursday (October 24, 1929) (followed by Black Monday and Black Tuesday)

Dust Bowl
Route 66
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Hoovervilles

Boulder Dam (1931)
Glass-Stegall Banking Act
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (January 1932)

Bonus Army (Summer, 1932) (Senator Hiram Johnson Speech)

Election of 1932 (FDR campaigning)