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Herbert Hoover was elected president of the United States on November 19, 1928; unfortunately, less than eight months later, the stock market crashed. Hoover mistakenly considered this crash as only a passing point for America. But it was only three years later when economic slowdown and over speculation brought America into an upcoming Great Depression. This was a devastating blow for Hoover, his administration, and the American people. President Hoover attempted many ways to fix the economy. He founded new government agencies and encouraged cooperation between government and business to try to stabilize prices as well as attempt to balance the budget. These relief attempts might have shown positive outcome in the early years of the depression, but as the economy worsened, calls for more government involvement increased.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan helped make the economy get stable through programs that he started, helping create more jobs for the unemployed. He passed bills that helped both the American people and its environment. For example, new roads and bridges were built. Another one of FDR’S efforts to get out of the depression was to enter WWII. Document 6 shows a cartoon of how much was produced for the war and shows Uncle Sam working, too. Overall, FDR’s decision to enter the war was the greatest impact on the Great Depression because they got out of it. Herbert Hoover was a terrible leader in many Americans’ views because they believed he did not do enough for the people and was more supportive toward big businesses. He gave money to the rich so that they would pass it down to the poor but instead the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Another downfall of Hoover was Hoovervilles. These were a collection of poor people without homes. The name was given as a disgrace to Hoover. In result, FDR was a more favored president during the Great Depression than Hoover.

Because of the plague known as the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover is often seen as one of the worst presidents in American history. He enacted policies such as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that flushed America deeper into the depression. Hoover didn't understand that to solve a crisis such as a depression, he needed to interact directly with the people by using programs such as social security and welfare. Instead, Hoover had the idea that if he were to let the depression run its course, it would eventually end. There are three things that can be used to define Hoover's presidency during the depression, his actions, his mentality toward fixing things, and the fact that he helped pave the way for the “New Deal”

President Herbert Hoover was the president in office during the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover did not recognize the stock market crash as severe as it was. During the tragedy President Herbert Hoover made many unsuccessful attempts to fix the economy. President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression was insufficient in the ways that he took little to no government action. President Hoover loaned money to corporations and state businesses, at the same he advised corporations to not cut wages or lower the production rate, considering that it was highly necessary. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a plan set that would throw Hoover out of office and to fix the economy, which Hoover had limited

Hoover was elected in 1928 at 53 years old, he had won primaries in California,New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland. His administration promised to keep lower taxes and a tax on imports and exports also known as a protective tariff. (Faushold). He also had the votes of most women as in this time it was a new right given to these women(History). But as he came into office Hoover started losing popularity, and that because of five words, "a final triumph over poverty"—words

Hoover started creating jobs when the Depression caused Americans to demand public purpose reform, but the public still quickly characterized him as a conservative despite passing some, now considered, liberal legislation. At first Hoover stubbornly held to his belief that government could not and should not try to end the Depression as shown in Document B. In 1930, Hoover remained conservative. He rarely intervened in the economy and

The year was 1929. America goes through the biggest national crisis since the American Civil War. They called it the Great Depression. The Stock Market was going down, unemployment was going up, and money was becoming scarce. The United States had to look up to the one person who could lead the country out of this national catastrophe, The President. At this time the man who had that title was none other than Herbert Hoover. Hoover, A republican, hoped that this was all a nightmare, he hoped that the Depression was a small fluke that would fix itself after a short period of time. After seeing that the Depression was getting worse had to

The starting of WWII gave people work. The U.S. needed warfare materials so the factories opened up and people were hired to work. Therefore helping us get out of the depression. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president who was trying to get the U.S. out of the depression. He believed that the government should not help the people but charities should. The problem with that was no one was donating to the charities because no one had anything to give or donate. Hoover used trickle down economics. Which meant he would help the businesses first and then it would eventually lead to the people, his idea was a long term plan and they needed a short term plan to help the people. Herbert Hoover believed helping the businesses would improve the economy. His plan did not

Hoover was the type of conservative that believed the economy would repair itself and the dead parts would fall. He refused to give direct federal relief to the people. in business affairs, Hoover kept America as a rugged individualist, capitalist society with little regulation. In fact, when the depression hit he bailed out the businesses rather than the American people. He established the Reconstructive Finance Corporation, which supplied corporate relief for corporations identified to be too big to fail. He was the first president that used his money made for being the president, for donations to charity. He was living the American Dream. Publicity of being a self-made man torched him when his strategies failed to relinquish the burden of the Great Depression (Hughes 1).

Herbert Hoover served as the thirty-first President from 1929 to 1933 where he was succeeded by Roosevelt. Hoover was the United States President during a troubling time for many Americans; the Great Depression. Hoover gained a “reputation as a humanitarian in World War I by leading hunger-relief efforts in Europe as head of the American Relief Administration” (biography.com). Hoover was also the U.S. secretary of commerce before he served time in office. Hoover was a known humanitarian and organized many relief efforts. Hoover has many other published works such as The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, The Challenge to Liberty, The Problems of Lasting Peace, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, Principles of Mining, and Fishing

Furthermore, some of Hoovers programs were the Mexican Repatriation program, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Hoover Moratorium. The Mexican Repatriation program started in 1929 forcing over 500,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans to migrate to Mexico. This program was created to reduce the need of aid; instead it created a hatred toward Hoover. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff “raised the tariff on thousands of imported items as part of a failed effort to encourage the purchase and growth of American-made goods, raise federal revenue, and protect farmers.” ( ) Hoover pushed away other country’s when he really needed there help. Lastly the Hoover Moratorium was when hoover created a one year standstill in reparation bills from Germany to France, instead repaying the debts of the Allied war to the US. It almost did nothing to the economy and created tension from France and Germany. Instead of solving problems, Hoovers Programs created a lot of damage.

Making of America states that Hoover’s major tool for solving the crisis, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, had some major flaws. For one, it took too long to begin operating. It was already years into the depression when it was established and this was simply too late. Not only that, but while it had loaned money out, this appeared to have no effect on boosting the economy. According to Biography.com, Hoover another highly fundamental mistake in his administrative approach to the Great Depression. In an attempt to guard America’s industries, Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Act into law, which raised taxes on goods to other nations. This inflated tariff on imports to foreign countries, which ultimately led to their refusal to buy American products in a time that money gained from those sales were crucial to economic revival. USHistory.com prescribes the concerns that many individuals have observed, and this was that Hoover did not recognize the seriousness of the issues at different perspectives of the depression, and therefore did little to directly address the desperate needs of the people. This is exemplary by his refusal to enact federal relief funding and programs that could have been greatly beneficial to the critical state of the country.

President Herbert Hoover’s response to the crash on Wall Street and the Depression, while good-natured and with the best intentions, was arguably sub par and had a direct effect on how people viewed his policies and the outcome of the presidential election of 1932. “The Great Depression challenged the optimism, policies, and philosophy that Herbert Hoover had carried into the White House in 1929. The president took unprecedented steps to resolve the crisis but shrank back from the interventionist policies activists urged. His failures, personal as well as political and economic, led to his repudiation and to a major shift in government policies” (Goldfield, 722). President Hoover’s basic idea to solve the Depression was through no federal

This allowed new markets to open and helped businessmen like Henry Ford provide automobiles to the working class for the first time. Due to the increase in the standard of living and increased buying power people received during the 20’s, the liberal policies of president hoover were embraced. However even prior to the Depression, Herbert Hoover displayed some conservative tendencies. In his candidacy speech he showed contempt for liberalism because it would limit the liberties of people. He also believed that less government intervention would be in everyone’s best interest (Doc A). He believed in the personal and states rights which was shown in his lack of intervention during the Great Depression. He stated that the only way to pursue change was to promote people to do what was best in their communities (Doc B). One of Hoover’s goals during the Depression was to retain a balanced budget (Doc F). However his support of businesses made him reject the plea of the public to increase inflation so that they could pay of their debts because he believed it would stop businesses from investing money. This led to a large burden being placed on trading partners as well as american workers, although he did try to give money for the creation of public works jobs (Doc C). To help the economy Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, which was the highest tariff in US history. This resulted in higher public debt and deficit which reached 22.5 billion by the time FDR was in office (Doc

President Herbert Hoover took office shortly before the Great Depression began, in a time in which the country was doing well.