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President Hoover’s Politics During the Great Depression

At first everything seemed fine and dandy. America was enjoying one of the biggest economic surges in the nation’s history. However, even though America benefited from the economic boom of the so called "Roaring Twenties", the imbalance between the rich and the poor combined with the production of more and more goods and rising personal debt caused one of the biggest recessions in history. On Black Tuesday, October 29,1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression, which was the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern, industrial world. It spread from the United States and rippled out to the rest of the world, with banks failing and businesses going bust for over a span of a decade, leaving more than a quarter of the working force in America without jobs.
President Herbert Hoover, underestimating the seriousness of the crisis, called it "a p
A. compare the number of jobless people prior to and during the Great Depression
B. provide an example of the results of Hoover’s unsuccessful policies
C. illustrate how thing went from bad to worse during the Great Depression
D. note the outcome of the downward spiral caused by combinations of reasons