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Hoover

Published on Feb 06, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HOOVER IS NOT GUILTY

HOOVER HAD IDEAS

  • Hoover Dam
  • Federal Farm Board
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

HOOVER DAM

  • Part of public services plan
  • Employed 5000
  • Supplied power to southwest America
  • Only 100 workers died

FEDERAL FARM BOARD

  • Payed farmers for crops
  • Farmers over produced crops
  • Government couldn't buy enough
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RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION

  • Gave Government Credit to institutions
  • Such as industries, rail roads, ect.

VOLUNTARY ACTION

  • Hoover tried to keep as many people
  • As possibly working.
  • Company's secretly cut wages and
  • Fired workers.
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HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF

  • Highest import tax in history
  • Sadly European countries
  • Raised their own tariffs
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DIRECT RELIEF

  • Hoover felt that social security would
  • Destroy peoples self-respect
  • And create a large beuacracy
  • Like todays government
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BONUS ARMY

  • Jobless WWI soldiers and families
  • Camped in DC for payment of pension bonus
  • That had been peomised
  • Genral McCarther kicked bonus army out
  • Hoover wanted peaceful escorts