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Welcome to Hooverville

Welcome to Hooverville. USHC 6.3. 1928 Presidential Election. 1928. 1932. 1936. 1940. Herbert Hoover (R-IA) Thirty-first President of the U.S. 1929-1933. www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/warrenharding. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS in the late 1920s. CHEAP CREDIT.

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Welcome to Hooverville

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  1. Welcome to Hooverville USHC 6.3

  2. 1928 Presidential Election 1928 1932 1936 1940

  3. Herbert Hoover(R-IA)Thirty-first President of the U.S.1929-1933 www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/warrenharding

  4. ECONOMIC PROBLEMSin the late 1920s CHEAP CREDIT The Federal Reserve is a government-created central bank that determines interest rates.

  5. ECONOMIC PROBLEMSin the late 1920s SPECULATION CHEAP CREDIT BUYING “ON MARGIN”

  6. Stock Market CRASH

  7. “Hoovervilles” It’s ALWAYS the Presidents’ fault.

  8. The Dust Bowl Farm Economy Collapses

  9. A Dust Storm in Texas (1935)

  10. Route 66 “Okies”

  11. 25% Peak Unemployment 50% Black Unemployment During Depression

  12. Migrant Mother (1936)

  13. The Hoover Myth Hoover just sat there and did nothing about the Depression. It wasn’t until FDR that the government tried to do something. FALSE ZZZ…

  14. Tax Increase

  15. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Second-highest tariff in U.S. History

  16. Hoover Had Limits Voluntary Charitable Efforts Direct Relief for the Poor

  17. The “Bonus Expeditionary Force” aka, “Bonus Army”Summer, 1932 The doughboys want their dough.

  18. No Substitute for Victory MACARTHUR

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