Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0123 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hoover's Response
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The idea
Hoover held to American individualism: hard work without government interference. He sought voluntary business measures, then created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for banks and signed the Emergency Relief Act for public works.
In practice
The Bonus Army of nineteen thirty-two, dispersed by the military.
Where people slip
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff invited retaliation abroad. The anchor's verdict on Hoover is the anchor's; the course states the measures.
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