Hoover and the Great Depression

When banks crashed during the Great Depression

What was the most well known public works project approved by President Hoover?

many depositors withdrawal money at once

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation provided loans to

painter of American Gothic emphasizing Midwestern values

Hoover vetoed the Garner-Wagner bill because it would provide

stock market crash

homeless migrants in the Great Depression

WWI veterans who came to Washington D.C. to lobby Congress for

unique disaster created from a drought and winds

To provide jobs, Hoover

Photographer who documented the families displaced by the Great Depression & the Dust Bowl

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

loss of property due to nonpayment of a mortgage

Who violated Hoover's orders regarding the Bonus Army?

Hoovervilles were

At what percentage did unemployment reach during President Hoover's administration?

migrants who went West to escape the Dust Storms

Hoover's philosophy that people should help themselves without government direct relief

In an attempt to raise prices, farmers

making monthly payments

author of the Grapes of Wrath

discouraged trade of American goods in foreign markets