The correct option is the first one, <em>while he campaigned for president in 1928; Herbert Hoover saw the unparalleled prosperity across the country.
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On taking office, Hoover said that "given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation." Many shared Hoover's optimism, and the already bullish stock market climbed even higher on Hoover's accession.
However, within months of taking office, the Stock Market Crashed of 1929 in an event known as “Black Tuesday”, and the worldwide economy began to spiral downward into the Great Depression, which was a severe worldwide economic collapse that took place during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
Sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in Southern society.
Answer: Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
Share cropping is a form of agriculture in which the owner of the land gives his land to the tenants where they can grow the crops and earn their livelihood. So this system of agriculture gave an upper hand to the land owners who belonged to the people of the white community and gave them an economic dominance also. It suppressed the lower sections of the society who were the tenants and who were dependent on the land owners for borrowing the land.
