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Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

Spiro Bolos

May 04, 2023
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  1. Herbert Hoover &
    the Great Depression

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  6. Robert Putnam, The Upswing

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  7. Herbert Hoover &
    the Great Depression

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  8. “He is truly a wonder, and
    I wish we could make him President.
    There couldn’t be a better one.”

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  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    1929

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  10. Standard Picture

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  11. Secretary
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    Commerce

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  13. Annie slide?

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  15. West Branch, IA

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  17. independence
    hard work
    community service

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  24. “The Great Humanitarian”

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  25. “The Great Engineer”

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  26. “Hoover-ize”

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  27. Economic Philosophy

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  28. Government =
    promoter of solutions

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  29. Government ≠
    legislator of solutions

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  30. “The right man
    at the wrong time?”
    1928

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  31. Response?

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  32. Tax cut

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  33. Fed loan policy

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  34. Boulder dam? pic
    $800 million

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  35. Boulder dam? pic
    $800 million

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  36. POUR
    President’s Organization on
    Unemployment Relief

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  37. Federal Farm
    Marketing Bd

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  39. Reconstruction
    Finance Corp.

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  40. Urbana Daily Courier, 1/18/32, p.1

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  42. Home Loan Bank Act

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  43. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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  44. Federal Farm Marketing Bd

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  45. “Hoover-villes”

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  46. “Hoover-villes”

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  50. “Hoover blankets”

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  52. “Hoover flags”

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  55. Impact

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  56. Working Class Americans

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  58. Young Americans

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  59. Older Americans

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  60. Black Americans

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  61. Black Americans

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  62. Black Americans

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  63. African-Americans

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  64. Middle class
    “Shame, shame, shame”

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  65. Mothers

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  68. Drums Along the Mohawk

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  69. Will Rogers, “Homeville”

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  70. Gangster films
    1930

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  72. 1931

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  74. Gangster films
    1932

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  76. 1933

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  77. 1935

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