Hoover’s Response Fails 11.5.1, 11.6.2 EQ: Why did Herbert Hoover’s policies fail to solve the country’s economic crisis?

Hoover’s Response to the Depression 1. Rugged Individualism he didn’t believe he legally could give direct aid it’s not in the Constitution gave money to local and state governments and businesses instead Hoover encouraged businesses to voluntarily help he cut income tax on the wealthiest from 74% to 23% businesses cut wages and fired more workers he tried to get local communities and the states to fix the depression

Hoover’s Response to the Depression Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 1932 Hoover loaned billions to private businesses to jump start the economy banks, railroads, insurance companies, and local governments from 1932 – 1941 the RFC loaned $9.5 billion FDR continued this program it was too late, voters dumped Hoover for FDR in 1932

Hoover’s Dam (or should it be Dam Hoover?) Hoover Dam, 1931 – 1935 Hoover set aside $49 million to build a dam to provide irrigation and electricity Hoover supported jobs for the unemployed so they wouldn’t sacrifice their dignity FDR called it the Boulder Dam so it wouldn’t have Hoover’s name the “trickle-down theory” allspark

Hoover’s Response to the Depression Bonus Army, 1932 Large assembly of WWI veterans marched on DC to demand the money they’d been promised the Adjusted Compensation Act was like the GI Bill Congress refused so they set up Hoovervilles outside the city Army chased them out and Hoover looked really bad a baby was killed, the veterans did not get their money 11.6.2

Communist / Fascist Solutions communists argued that the government should seize all property the government would control all businesses the depression in the USSR was less severe fascists wanted a dictator to control every aspect of society

Essential Question – 1 paragraph, SUTW Why did Herbert Hoover’s policies fail to solve the country’s economic crisis?