GET IT DONE!
• What was President Hoover’s philosophy
for dealing with the Great Depression?
– Why?
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• Describe the process of building the Hoover
Dam.
• What was the impact of the Hoover Dam
being built?
• What caused the Dust Bowl?
• How did the Dust Bowl impact Americans
during the Great Depression?
1932: 32,000
businesses
failed
Annual income:
-1929 = $2,300
-1935 = $1,600
1929 = 5%
1932 = 25%
Why might people
Reconstruction Finance
criticize
this?
Corporation (RFC)
Gov’t loans to
businesses, effects
would eventually
“trickle down” to help
everyone
Definition: Direct Relief
Receiving assistance from a specific organization
Two different types of organizations:
Private charity/business: example, Salvation Army
providing free food
The government: example, providing job
opportunities
Hoover’s Economic Action
“Hooverville”
Also known asShantytown
Hoover
“blanket”
Hoover “flag”
WWI vets were
to receive a
“bonus”
redeemable in 20
years (1945)
Coolidge actually
vetoed the bill
1932 The Bonus Army
Some from Portland, OR
traveled to DC to ask
Congress to pay the
bonus now
17,000 of them by the
time they got there
They marched to Capitol
Hill the day the bill was
to be voted on
It was
defeated...
They did
NOT get
their bonus
early
About 2000
stayed in
DC; Hoover
allowed
them to be
driven out
by force
Hoover had the Army
Chief of Staff Douglas
MacArthur & his aide
Dwight Eisenhower
clear the vets from
federal buildings
Tanks,
cavalry units,
infantry with
bayonets
MacArthur
torched the
camps
100 injured, baby died
(tear gas)
Tent city burns - 1932
Critical thinking
• You are running to become the next
president of the United States in the election
of 1932.
• Write a formal letter to the American
citizens.
– What you will do as the next president to
improve society for everyone during the
depression?
– Include your catchy campaign slogan as well!
Put food in your dish and vote for fish!