THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Detailed explanation-1: -What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work? The name given to the men and boys who rode the rails was hoboes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The farmers and sharecroppers who left the dust bowl to find work in the west were known as hoboes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some two dozen countries enacted high tariffs within two years of the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which led to a 65 percent decrease in international trade between 1929 and 1934.
Detailed explanation-4: -For many years, both scholars and the American public held Hoover in extremely low esteem, blaming him for the Great Depression and criticizing his efforts to solve the crisis. Beginning in the 1970s, however, Hoover’s reputation began to recover.