USA 1920's Extra points ( Hurbert Hoover and Hubervilles
High tariffs - success for US businesses, part of isolationism policy
Laissez faire capitalism - private ownership with little infringement from the government( hoover's idea of Free Enterprise)
Overproduction a major cause for both agricultural recession and stock market crash
Government restriction on immigration, particularly Asians during this period
Laissez faire capitalism - private ownership with little infringement from the government( hoover's idea of Free Enterprise)
Overproduction a major cause for both agricultural recession and stock market crash
Government restriction on immigration, particularly Asians during this period
"Hooverville" became a common term for shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression. There were dozens in the state of Washington, hundreds throughout the country, each testifying to the housing crisis that accompanied the employment crisis of the early 1930s.
"Hooverville" was a deliberately politicized label, emphasizing that President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party were to be held responsible for the economic crisis and its miseries.
"Hooverville" was a deliberately politicized label, emphasizing that President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party were to be held responsible for the economic crisis and its miseries.
“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land,” Herbert Hoover
A lifelong humanitarian, as an adult, Hoover was in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and he organized the relief efforts for trapped foreigners. Four years later, he helped Americans stranded in Europe when World War I began, and for three years after, he headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium, helping to procure food for 9 million Belgians in the aftermath of the massive encroachment of German troops. When President Coolidge decided not to run for another term, Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1928. He ran against New York governor Alfred E. Smith and won in a landslide