The Great Depression - President Hoover's Handling of the Crisis

Herbert Hoover, a Republican President at the beginning of the Great Depression, was ineffective in his response because

1. What are examples of how Americans expressed their anger and frustrations with Pres. Hoover?

Farmers burned their corn and wheat and poured their milk on the highway because the markets would be selling these things at a low price and some farmers stopped working and farmers blocked roads to prevent food from getting to markets.

2. What were Hoover's principles? The ones he chose to hold firm on?

Hoover refused to support direct relief or other forms of federal welfare.

3. Who made up the Bonus Army, and how did what happened to them affect Pres. Hoover?

War World I veterans and their families and they were being attacked with tear gas bombs and bayonets this made President Hoover lose the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt.



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