How Did Hoover Prevent The Great Depression?

In the mind of Herbert Hoover, the government should not intervene in economic activities. When the Great Depression hit, this ideology was still active. Hoover tried to soothe the souls of the American people by putting up pictures of a man in a tux eating five full course meals a day in order to create a facade to encourage people to live like before. That man indeed was Herbert Hoover. That totally failed, and seeing Hoover’s luxury, the people living in poverty almost turned communist. Hoover received a lot of criticism, and the people lost faith in Hoover’s political party, the Republicans. The results were shown in the election of 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, won over Hoover by a landslide. Congress passed the 20th Amendment in order to get rid of Hoover as fast as possible, and Franklin Roosevelt came to power the January of the following year. Franklin Roosevelt had many good selling points. Three goals were made to deter the depression, recover from the depression, and to restructure the US economy in order to prevent another depression of the …show more content…
Of the fifteen, one-third were aimed at the working class. These bills provided seven million jobs, protected bank accounts, provided relief programs, and subsidized consumer goods. The working class grew. It grew even more with the passing of the Works Progress Administration act which employed an extra 8 million people. Sometime after 1936, the Wagner Act was put into place to set working hours and minimum wage, and prohibited children under 18 from working. It also acted as a Magna Carta for unions, since union membership grew exponentially. The working class now has a voice and is thus strengthened. To cope with the growing working class, Roosevelt announced the Social Security Act to encourage the elderly to leave the workforce at 65, to pay the unemployed, and to aid families with dependents or those with