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the New Deal was tring to give the economy jobs to work with
One major event that occurred in the 1930s during President Hoover's administration was the Great Depression. This economic crisis, triggered by the stock market crash of 1929, had severe consequences on the American economy and people's livelihoods. President Hoover's response to the crisis was criticized, as he was seen as not doing enough to alleviate the suffering of the American people.
Construction of a major dam on the Colorado River.
In 1922 Hoover wrote a book American individualism, presented arguements that the government should not help out individual americans because it would not improve the economy. He called in " rugged individualism" By 1931, Hoover increased funding for public works, or goverment finianced building projects in hopes to give construction jobs to those jobs lost in the private sector.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landmark progressive legislations are known as the New Deal. The New Deal included major initiatives and government spending to boost the economy from recession such as the Social Security and Works Progress Administration (SSA and WPA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
In the 1932 US presidential election, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against the incumbent president, Herbert Hoover, a Republican. Most voters blamed the Depression on Hoover so Roosevelt became the 32nd US president.
The Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam in honor of then President Hoover who commissioned the project)
His degree at Stanford was in geology.
Hoover Dam
A weak economy, and an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
A weak economy, and an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
A weak economy, and an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.