1. How did president Hoover try to overcome great depression?
United States History & Government
11th Grade Boys/Girls
Al-Madinah School
Br. Siraj (November 15, 2018)

2. Hoover’s Policy of recovery
Economic Cycles
Experts believed that economies go through cycles and automatically recover after a slump
Hoover’s Beliefs
Great Depression is just another slow down
His advisors thought government should do nothing
He believed that government should take some actions but no direct aid to people.

3. Government should help different groups work together, not make decision
He believed in rugged individualism – the idea that people should succeed through their own efforts
People should take care of themselves and each other
Government should encourage private groups to help the needy
Charities should provide food and shelter not the government
Only Boulder Dam project on the Colorado River did provide some help.

4. Peoples’ response to Hoover
Democrats gained more seats in the Congress in 1930’s election
Farmers burned crops and dumped milk
Shantytowns were called “Hoovervilles”

5. Talks with bankers, businessmen and labor leaders and suggests:
Hoover’s Actions
Talks with bankers, businessmen and labor leaders and suggests:
Presents Boulder Dam project as a model
Federal Farm Board was created to help farmers
working together
National Credit Corporation was created to help the banks
No firing
Better wage
No strikes

6. Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Lowered Mortgage rates to protect farmers from foreclosures of farms.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Provided money for projects to create jobs
Used U.S. Army to drive out the WW-I veterans (“Bonus Army”) from the capitol.
Americans were outraged.

7. Names & terms for Review
Capitol,
Diet
Drought
economic cycles
Foreclosure
Mortgage
bread lines
bonus army
great depression
Shantytowns
soup kitchens
black Tuesday
Dust Bowl
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act,
Herbert Hoover
price supports.

8. Answer the Following Questions
Describe two weaknesses of the economy in the 1920s
How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff affect the economy?
How did the Depression create shantytowns, soup kitchens, and bread lines?
What did Hoover do about the “Bonus Army”?
How did Hoover try to use the government to end the Depression?