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1Social Studies HW due 4/15/09; Herbert Hooverby sleepnix6 termsApril 14, 2009
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herbert hoover definitions
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231st president of the united states10 sets
31929-19338 sets
4republican candidate who assumed the presidency in march 1929 promising the american people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.7 sets
531st u.s. president. 1929-1933. republican6 sets
6president during the great depression. not well liked. ignored the depression of the country and the lack of jobs and homes.5 sets
7president of the u.s from 1923-1933 leader of the us in the beginning of the great depression. he didn't want the gov involved in the peoples lives and thought that the people should express their individual rights.5 sets
8____ ___ was in charge of the food administration5 sets
9he was the head of the food administration who also led a charity drive to feed belgians. he ensured the success of the food administration and created a surplus of food through volunteer actions.4 sets
1031st president4 sets
11head of the food administration encouraged wheatless heatless and meatless days4 sets
12secretary of commerce4 sets
13president from 1929 to 1933, called on businesses to help solve the situation rather than the government. americans felt he did little to help them.3 sets
14a3 sets
15blamed for depression; hoovervilles3 sets
16president who believed that families, churches, private charities, and neighbors should look after the needs of the unemployed during the depression3 sets
17president during the great depression3 sets
1831rst. he was the republican president when the depression hit. he advocated a “self-responsibility” role to end the depression since it was a routine event in a solid economy.3 sets
1931st president of the united states; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed3 sets
20coordinated food relief in europe3 sets
21walked into the presidency when the economy was "stable". his election seemed to ensure prosperity. yet within months the stock market crashed, and the nation spiraled downward into depression. after the crash hoover announced that while he would keep the federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.3 sets
22secretary of commerce who ran in the 1928 presidential election in place of calvin coolidge. he was nominated on a platform that clucked contentedly over both prosperity and prohibition. he triumphed in a landslide of popular votes and proved to be the first republican candidate in fifty-two years, except for harding's tennessee victory in 1920, to carry a state that had seceded.3 sets
23presient 1929-33 during the crash of 29.3 sets
24leads food and fuel administration3 sets
25secretary of commerce, facilitates (not regulates) business3 sets
2631st president from 1929 – 19333 sets
27self-made millionair from a small town in iowa; favored prohibition2 sets
28president elected in 1928; defeated for reelection in 19322 sets
29promoted attitude of rugged individualism2 sets
30president after coolidge2 sets
31head of the food administraiton who pioneered successful voluntary mobilization methods2 sets
32preisdent when the depression started, he was a good president but everyone didn't appreciate him cause they thought he was the one who caused the depression.2 sets
33the man wilson chose to put in charge of the food administration2 sets
34#312 sets
35president during the g.d, government should not interfer2 sets
36president during the start of the great depression2 sets
37elected in 1928 republican herbert hoover declared "we are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land". believed that the government shouldn't interfere too much with great depression.2 sets
38republican president on black tuesday, popular opinion suggested he provided little public relief for ensuing economic crisis2 sets
3931st (1929-1933)2 sets
40known as the great humaritain2 sets