History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1246 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1928
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The idea
In nineteen twenty-eight Herbert Hoover defeated the Democrat Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York, twenty-one million votes to fifteen million.
In practice
Smith, an Irish Catholic who opposed Prohibition and spoke for the cities.
Where people slip
The Yawp says Smith's Catholic faith and immigrant background aroused nativist suspicion. Hoover claimed credit for the decade's growth.
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