Notes
- Free Enterprise
- Introduces socialist measures
- People unhappy "Hoovervilles"
- Replaced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 election
Summary
Hoovervilles were small shanty towns on outskirts of cities; people who would live there were not happy with President Hoover, so riots broke out often.
Quotes
"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
Subjunctive Questions
Could of Hoover actually of done something to aid the people in hoovervilles?