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Give specific example of Americans helping one another to survive the Depression.
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Soup kitchens and giving food to people who were even worse off.
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In what ways did the end of Pohibition mark the end of an era.
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During the hard times of the Depression, people wanted alcohol as a mental lift. Also ending Prohibition weakened the organized crime from selling illegal alcohol.
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Why was President Hoover criticized for his handling of the Great Depression?
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Americans thought he wasn't doing enough to fix their problems. The help he gave came too late.
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Compare and contrast Hoover's stategy for ending the Great Depression with Roosevelt's.
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Hoover planned to end the Depression through voluntary actions from businesses and restoring consumer confidence. Roosevelt believed in an active, big government to help people.
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A group of WWI veterans and their families who protested in Washington D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus that had been promised for 1945
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Bonus Army
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The highest import tax in history, passed by congress in 1930.
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Hawley-Smoot tariff
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Corporation set up by President Hoover in 1932 to give government credit to a number of institutions, such as lagre industries and isurance companies.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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