Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

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1. Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression
6. Robert Putnam, The Upswing
7. Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression
8. “He is truly a wonder, and I wish we could make him President. There couldn’t be a better one.”
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1929
10. Standard Picture
11. Secretary of Commerce
13. Annie slide?
14. Annie slide?
15. West Branch, IA
17. independence hard work community service
24. “The Great Humanitarian”
25. “The Great Engineer”
26. “Hoover-ize”
27. Economic Philosophy
28. Government = promoter of solutions
29. Government ≠ legislator of solutions
30. “The right man at the wrong time?” 1928
31. Response?
32. Tax cut
33. Fed loan policy
34. Boulder dam? pic $800 million
35. Boulder dam? pic $800 million
36. POUR President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief
37. Federal Farm Marketing Bd
39. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
40. Urbana Daily Courier, 1/18/32, p.1
42. Home Loan Bank Act
43. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
44. Federal Farm Marketing Bd
45. “Hoover-villes”
46. “Hoover-villes”
50. “Hoover blankets”
52. “Hoover flags”
55. Impact
56. Working Class Americans
58. Young Americans
59. Older Americans
60. Black Americans
61. Black Americans
62. Black Americans
63. African-Americans
64. Middle class “Shame, shame, shame”
65. Mothers
68. Drums Along the Mohawk
69. Will Rogers, “Homeville”
70. Gangster films 1930
74. Gangster films 1932