Herbert Blumer

began. As the government did not provide unemployment insurance, lost jobs quickly translated people into homelessness and destituteness. In 1933, the unemployment rate hovered about 25 percent. The noun "Hooverville", which emphasized President Herbert Hoover should hold the responsibility for this crisis, became a common term in homeless…

Truman ending the war in the Pacific with dropping the Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These people all contributed to the world one way or another and Time acknowledged them with giving them the award. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover becoming the 32nd president with 57.4% of the popular vote. While there wasn’t one thing that made him stand out, Roosevelt helped the to change and contribute to the American people. President during the Great Depression. He was a beacon…

Hoovervilles were named after President Herbert Hoover because citizens of the nation blamed him for the hardships they were facing. These structures were built with cardboard, tarpaper, and other comparatively flimsy elements. Churches and other charities usually funded these. One of the largest…

food insecurity and massive job losses as people soured the country for work and stood in breadlines. These hard times put our nation at ends with political and economic issues, aggravating the effects of the Depression. Newly elected President Herbert Hoover began his presidency eight months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which jarred loose the banking system in the United States and caused…

In the words of President Calvin Coolidge, “The country can regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism,” (Doc B). Despite being President of the country, Coolidge was incredibly mistaken. Coolidge had no clue as to how far down their economy would plummet from 1929 to 1939. Coolidge had no clue that there would be thousands of homeless families and failing businesses in America’s not-so-distant future. Even John T. Raskob could not see this happening as he wrote…

The Great Depression is an example of how badly the world economy could decline as it was the longest and one of the most globally spread depression that took place during the 20th century. It took it’s roots from the United States in the 1930s and spread across the whole world, lasting until 1941. On September 4th, 1929, the stock prices across all US started falling drastically and in a period of just a month, on October 29 of the same year, the stock market crashed. In the next 3 years the…

Beginning in the early 1930s, citizens of the United States were under an immense amount of stress due to The Great Depression. With millions of Americans unemployed and hungry, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his first New Deal program in 1933 to help solve economic problems created by the Depression. In 1935, he launched a much more selective Second New Deal which included the Works Progress Administration, which was made to help Americans get back to work. The WPA included The Federal…

What makes someone a game changer? Game changers are people who make an impact on the world. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a game changer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, most commonly known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States and served for four consecutive terms (Franklin D. Roosevelt). One of Franklin’s greatest accomplishments during his presidency was the creation of the Social Security system which is still in effect to this day. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 at…

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper." By Franklin Roosevelt in the ("First Inaugural Address"). Roosevelt used many verbal flourishes to encourage our people to rebuild America, and allow them to reconstruct it. He took action against the Depression using his words as his sword, and the strike his actions. He proposed new bills that allowed them to get up to where we used to be. This affected our people in no other way like Roosevelt. His words allowed…

families across America. The very thought is devastating. However, two leaders rose up to try to fix this problem. Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt used different economic and domestic policies during their presidency to reach a common goal: obliterate the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover came in as president with many ideas in mind to change the economic state the country was in. Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States and served from 1929-1933 (Freidel and Sidey).…