Politics
The Great Depression dominated the 1930s. The despair of the poor and unemployed eventually turned to hope as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the New Deal, an "alphabet soup" of programs designed to boost the economy through public works programs and other federal intervention.
Age of Hoover
Unemployment was between 25% and 33% while Hoover was president for 4 years.
He was the 31st president People came up with names for certain things that Hoover caused: "Hooverville" represented the dirty shacks and state of being that the unemployed and homeless were in "Hoover flags" were the turned-out pockets of men in bread lines. "Hooverize," was positive images in the public mind in 1917. But soon people's minds changed greatly after Hoover did nothing for them. |