hoover president
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- Herbert Clark hoover was born on August 10,1874, in west Branch, Lowa -the first U.S president to be born west of the Mississippi river.
- he was the second of three children in a family of quakers, who valued honesty, industriousness and simplicity.
- how was hoover
- his father, Jesse Clark hoovers {1846-80}, worked as a blacksmith and his motherhood Minthorn hoover {1848-80}, was a teacher orphaned at age nine, hoover was raised primarily by an uncle in Oregon.
- the economic collapse that began in 1929 seemed unimaginable months before. in the 1928 election, both presidential candidates.
- On October 24,1929-only seven months after hoovering took office -a precipitous drops in the value of the U.S stock market sent the economy spiraling downward and signaled the start of the Great Depression
- what economic choices caused the economy to become unstable in the late 190s?
- American individualism which he maintained despite extraordinary economic circumstances, made him particularly unsuited to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression.
- He greatly resisted government intervention, considering it a path to the downfall of American greatness.
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