Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. He was in office during the stock market crash of 1929, which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Hoover tried to remedy the economic depression by providing relief to the banking industry, but these measures failed to stem the economic crisis and Hoover was not reelected at the end of his first term, losing to F.D.R.
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Chapter 54
Herbert Hoover succeeds Calvin Coolidge, and all the captains of industry support him. But in the first...
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Chapter 56
...fall. Fear spreads throughout all industries, and profits vanish. The Great Depression lasts through Herbert Hoover’s whole term, and he doesn’t know how to fix it. His solution is to have...
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Chapter 68
In 1932, Republicans nominate Hoover again for the presidency, while the Democrats nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the governor of New...
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Chapter 71
In spite of Ford telling his workers to vote for President Hoover, F.D.R. wins the election. Almost at once the finance industry breaks down completely, although people...
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