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Unit8:The1920sandtheNewDeal
Sec3–TheGreatDepression
HerbertHoover• HerbertHoover–electedin1928• Campaignedonpro-businesspoliciesof
HardingandCoolidge.• Believedthegovernmentshouldbemore
acHvethaneitherofhispredecessors.
HerbertHoover
StockMarketCrash• ThestockmarketcrashedinOctober1929.• On"BlackTuesday"ofOctober29,1929,millionsof
stocksweresoldinapanic.• Asaresultofthecrash,millionslosttheirjobsand
thousandsofbanksclosed.• ThiscrashledtotheGreatDepression.
TheGreatDepression• OneofthemaincausesoftheGreatDepression-
overproducBonbyfarmsandfactories.– Over-expansionofcreditalsocontributedtothedepression.
• AdroughtscorchedtheMississippiValley,causingthousandsoffarmstobesold–ledto1933DustBowl
• Hoovervilles:anicknameforHn-and-papershantytowns.
Hawley-SmootTariff• TheHawley-SmootTariffof1930-
America’shighestprotecHvetariffduringpeaceHme.
• Ledtoretaliatorytariffs–TradeWar
HooverBaJlestheGreatDepression• Congresstoallocatedmoneyforusefulpublicworks.(ex:the
HooverDam)• CongressalsooutlawedanH-unioncontractsandbarredfederal
courtsfromstoppingstrikes,boycoYs,andpeacefulpickeHng.
TheBonusArmy• WWIVeterans-The"BonusExpediBonaryForce"(BEF)demandedthatCongressfullypaytheirdeferredbonusesearly(notsupposedtogetunHl1945)
• PresidentHooversentinthearmytoevacuatethegroup.NegaHvepublicityforHoover.
FranklinD.Roosevelt
• FranklinD.Roosevelt-goodpublicspeaker.Calledforabalancedbudgetandsocialandeconomicreforms.
• FDR'swife,EleanorRoosevelt,veryacHveherhusband'spoliHcalcareer.
Eleanor Roosevelt
ElecBonof1932
• DemocratFDRsupportedaNewDealforthe"forgoYenman."
• RepublicanHerbertHoover-reaffirmedfaithfreeenterpriseandindividualism.
ElecBonof1932• FranklinRooseveltwon• AfricanAmericansandWomenbecameavitalpartoftheDemocraHcParty,especiallyintheurbancentersoftheNorth.– FDRmaintainedSouthernDemocratsaswell
FDR’sCoaliHon• NorthernLiberals• AfricanAmericans• WesternFarmers• Women• SouthernDemocrats(Dixiecrats)• BlueCollarWorkers
• FDR–MasterpoliHcian,maintainedmanydifferentfacHonswithoutfracturingtheparty.