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Hoovervills were important to the great depression because when people's homes went to foreclosure, they had no where to go. Hoovervills gave people shelter and food during the great depression when people had no where to go.

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Why hoovervilles are important?

was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.


What did people live in during the Great Depression?

HooverVilles


What were shanty towns that were built as temporary residences for the many people who were left homeless during The Great Depression called?

Hoovervilles


What does Hoovervilles?

cities and town were families were during the great depression


When did Hoovervilles occur?

during the great depression and when herbert hoover was president


Hoovervilles during the Great Depression consisted of?

groups of makeshift homes in shantytowns.


What are three ways the great depression was hard on WA residents?

Hoovervilles


Shanty towns that sprang up during the Great Depression were popularly known as?

They were called Hoovervilles, after President Hoover. Many people blamed President Hoover for the Depression.


What were the name of the shacksthat people lived in during the Great Depression called?

Some were called "Hoovervilles" to indicate that President Hoover was the cause of the Great Depression.


What president had slums named after him during the great depression?

Hoovervilles were named for President Herbert Hoover.


What were the hoovervilles Great Depression?

Hoovervilles were shanty towns that people were forced to live in because they could not afford any proper accomodation during the Great Depression. They were named after President Hoover who was President of the US at the beginning of the Great Depression. Hoover was replaced by Franklin D Roosevelt because he was regarded as a 'do nothing President' meaning he did not put proper measures in place to help the USA out of the Great Depression.


What is the term used to describe the makeshift shantytown set up by homeless people during the great depression?

Hoovervilles