1. Aim: How did President Hoover respond to The Great Depression?
Do Now: Do you think it is the Government’s responsibility to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression, or should it be left up to the individual? Explain your answer using three supporting details.

2. HERBERT HOOVER ELECTED PRESIDENT, 1928
"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.“ 1928
"I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people."
(1930)
HOOVER ACCEPTING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IN 1928

3. HERBERT HOOVER RAN ON A PLATFORM OF CONTINUED PROSPERITY

4. 8 MONTHS IN OFFICE THE ECONOMY DECLINES
8 MONTHS IN OFFICE THE ECONOMY DECLINES. FOR FOUR YEARS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE ONLY MINIMAL ATTEMPTS TO END THE ECONOMIC CRISIS.
“ECONOMIC DEPRESSION CANNOT BE CURED BY LEGISLATIVE ACTION OR EXECUTIVE PRONOUNCEMENT. ECONOMIC WOUNDS MUST BE HEALED BY THE ACTION OF THE CELLS OF THE ECONOMIC BODY - THE PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS THEMSELVES”
HERBERT HOOVER

5. CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
HIGH TARIFFS AND WAR DEBTS
OVERPRODUCTION IN INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE
INCONSISTENT MONETARY POLICY
STOCK MARKET CRASH AND FINANCIAL PANIC

6. FARM OVERPRODUCTION
SURPLUSES/OVERPRODUCTION: FARM INCOMES DROPPED DURING THE 1920’S. FARM LAND FELL FROM $69 PER ACRE IN 1920 T0 $31 IN 1930.
DUST BOWL: 10 YEAR DROUGHT IN COLORADO, KANSAS, NEW MEXICO, TEXAS, AND OKLAHOMA
IN 1929 THE AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME FOR AN AMERICAN FAMILY WAS $750, BUT FOR FARM FAMILIES IT WAS ONLY $273. THE PROBLEMS IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR HAD A LARGE IMPACT SINCE 30% OF AMERICANS STILL LIVED ON FARMS.

7. DECLINE IN FARM PRICES IMPACTED FARMER’S INCOME

8. HOOVER'S RESPONSE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM: People should not rely on the government to get out of the Great Depression
RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION (RFC)
INCREASED PUBLIC WORKS SPENDING
THE BONUS MARCH

9. RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION (RFC)
Pump Priming: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT INCREASES SPENDING IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. THE CORPORATION MADE LOANS TO BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, AND INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS AS A WAY OF RESTORING CREDIT DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

10. HOOVER RELIEF AND GOVERNMENT “MAKE WORK” CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOOVER DAM IN NEVADA EMPLOYED THOUSANDS WHO NEEDED JOBS

11. “Hoovervilles”, homeless camps

14. FARMER AND SONS IN OKLAHOMA 1936 DURING A DUST STORM

15. “MIGRANT MOTHER”
FAMILY SOLD THEIR
TENT TO BUY FOOD
BECAUSE THE PEA
CROP FAILED

17. WHAT LIES AHEAD!!!!

18. BONUS MARCHERS SET UP CAMP IN WASHINGTON D.C.
THE BONUS MARCH
MAY –JULY 1932
THE BONUS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WAS A GROUP OF WWI VETERANS WHO HAD BEEN DENIED EARLY BONUS PAYMENTS FOR SERVICE IN THE WAR. THEY ORGANIZED A PROTEST MARCH ON WASHINGTON IN TWENTY THOUSAND MEN SET UP A TENT CITY, VOWING TO STAY UNTIL THEY GOT THEIR MONEY. PRESIDENT HOOVER SENT IN THE ARMY (LED BY FUTURE GENERALS OF THE ARMY DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AND DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER) TO BREAK UP THE PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION.
BONUS MARCHERS SET UP CAMP IN WASHINGTON D.C.