Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression

What is the name for a "hands-off" government?

• Tariffed

• Mandated

• Regulated

• Laissez-Faire

What is the idea that every should succeed on their own without help?

• Bootstrap economics

• Rugged Individualism

• Cooperative Achievement

• Social Darwinism

What did Herbert Hoover do as part of "Volunteerism?" (Select Three)

• Asked Business not to fire workers or cut wages

• Asked labor leaders not to strike

• Funded Social Security

• Gave money to private charities

• Started the Medicare program

Private Charities ran out of Resources during the Great Depression

• True

• False

How did people show anger toward Herbert Hoover?

Groups:

(a) Farmers

,

(b) Urban Unemployed

• Called newspapers "Hooverblankets"

• Blocked Roads

• Called empty Pockets "Hoover Flags"

• Named shanty towns "Hoovervilles"

• Burned Crops

• Poured Milk into the sewer

Hoover Dam was a public works project that provides electricity for which city?

• Las Vegas, NV

• Denver, CO

• San Francisco, CA

• Phoenix, AZ

How did Herbert Hoover react to the Bonus Army?

• Hoover paid them the full amount

• Hoover made them reenlist.

• Hoover put them to work at the Boulder Dam

• Hoover forcibly removed them from the capital

How did Herbert Hoover's rugged individualism and volunteerism lead to his unpopularity and the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt?