Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
- Free Enterprise
- Introduce socialist measures - People unhappy "Hoovervilles" - Replaced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 election “Our people are providing against distress from unemployment in true American fashion by magnificent response to public appeal and by action of local governments.”
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Herbert Hoover was the serving president during the depression. He had socialist ideologies, and introduced a concept called Free Enterprise. To spite him, people named the depression area shantytowns, Hoovervilles.
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