Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

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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
    of
    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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74. Gangster films
    1932
    

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