A reexamination of Hoover's Depression-era policies

1. Herbert Hoover &
the Great Depression

6. Herbert Hoover &
the Great Depression

7. “He is truly a wonder, and
I wish we could make him President.
There couldn’t be a better one.”

8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1929

9. Standard Picture

10. Secretary
of
Commerce

12. Annie slide?

13. Annie slide?

14. West Branch, IA

16. independence
hard work
community service

23. “The Great Humanitarian”

24. “The Great Engineer”

25. “Hoover-ize”

26. Government =
promoter of solutions

27. Government ≠
legislator of solutions

28. “The right man
at the wrong time?”
1928

29. Response?

30. Tax cut

31. Fed loan policy

32. Boulder dam? pic$800 million

33. Boulder dam? pic$800 million

34. POUR
President’s Organization on
Unemployment Relief

35. Federal Farm
Marketing Bd

37. Reconstruction
Finance Corp.

38. Urbana Daily Courier, 1/18/32, p.1

40. Home Loan Bank Act

41. Hawley-SmootTariff

42. Federal Farm Marketing Bd

43. “Hoover-villes”

44. “Hoover-villes”

48. “Hoover blankets”

50. “Hoover flags”

51. ???

53. Impact

54. Young Americans

55. Older Americans

56. African-Americans

57. African-Americans

58. Middle class
“Shame, shame, shame”

59. Mothers

62. Will Rogers, “Homeville”

63. Gangster films
1930

64. 1931

65. Gangster films
1932

66. 1933

67. 1935