THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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Shanty towns (make-shift) towns were named after this person due to the people’s dissatisfaction of the amount of help they were given after the Stock Market Crash?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
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Theodore Roosevelt
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William McKinley
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -"Hoovervilles, ” shanty towns of unemployed men, sprung up all over the nation, named after President Hoover’s insufficient relief during the crisis.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression.
Detailed explanation-3: -Laissez-faire attitude (hands off) towards government involvement in the economy. Republican presidents of the 1920s allowed businesses to do what they wanted with little government interference. Led to collapse of Stock Market which then led nto the Great Depression.
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