Herbert Simon

The Great Depression and the 1932 Campaign The 1932 Presidential campaign was colored by the gray gloom of a deepening economic depression. Incumbent President Herbert Hoover, who had been a rising star in a Republican Party that had not lost the White House since 1916, was facing blame for the crisis. The homeless and destitute named the shacks and shanties they had been forced to retreat too “Hoovervilles” and the turned-out empty trouser pockets of men standing in bread lines were dubbed…

Herbert Hoover who was the U.S. 31st president took office in 1929, which is also the year that the U.S. economy plummeted and this occurrence had started the “Great Depression”. In fact, October 29, 1929 which is also known as “Black Tuesday”, was the day that the stock market began to crash after the stock market had been increasing at an astonishing rate. As the Great Depression began to worsen as time passed on our president, Herbert Hoover believed that the cause of the Great Depression had…

Significance of the Election 1912 The Election of 1912 was an election that tore friends apart and showed the view of what people wanted for America. There were four candidates that took part in the race for the White House, at one point 2 candidates were part of the same party, and they were Theodore Roosevelt of the Progressive Party, Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party, Eugene Debs of the Socialist Party, and William Howard Taft of the Republican party. Roosevelt and Taft were friends…

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Response to the Depression The great depression started after the market crash of October 1929 leaving the nation devastated and desperate for a solution. It took two Presidents to take on the economic issue America was facing. President Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) both had very distinct methods in which they presumed to resolve the issue. Their different means of assisting the matter was both seen in Hoover’s “rugged individualism”…

industries, and eighty percent of the population had no life savings due to many buying stocks on margin. Five percent of the population accounting for a third of all total wealth led to a consumer economy where only few could consume. President Herbert…

prospered greatly, lending money to many nations. However, that good fortune ended abruptly, beginning with Black Tuesday and worsening when the banks went bankrupt and closed, taking along much the the citizens’ money. The current president at the time, Herbert Hoover did nearly nothing, trying to adhere the the laissez-faire economic policy that the US had followed prior. Knowing better, Franklin D. Roosevelt threw the federal government into healing America, forming his different plans into a…

The era of "Roaring Twenties" in the United States often has another name - The Prosperity, and is characterized by rapid economic growth. The Roaring Twenties or The Jazz Age - French called it “années folles” (Crazy Years) – is a period of unprecedented change in all the spheres of life in North America and some European countries. During this period public life was to undergo dramatic changes: Victorian morality had become survival of the past, and America began to live according to new…

The Roaring Twenties, which lasted from 1920 to 1929, was all about fun and brought many new things, both good and bad. For the first time more families were living in cities and not on farms. The population in major cities went from around 200 thousand people at the start of the 1900s to almost 2 million in 1930. Because the living situations changed so much so did the culture. Youth culture was one thing that changed during the Roaring twenties. The youth was shocking the community with short,…

From 1929 to 1941, a period of time began in the United States that was referred to as the Great Depression. A lack of confidence led to withdrawals in order to protect money, draining the banks ' reserves and destroying their ability to make loans. This mistrust affected the entire economy and started a dangerous cycle. Since that time, there has been much historical debate over what actually caused it, and many theories have been proposed to explain how a country’s economy could fail so…

During the beginning of the 1900 's near the 1930 's the soil erosion and deleption had reached its highest peak. During this time gullies of soil had gotten so deep that it was exceeding the height of homes. Fertilization and the rotation of crops we not taught to the farmers who were used to fertile soil. The erosion of the land became so extensive that it was said within the documentary that “A series of boxcars could go around the earth seven times with the amount of soil that had eroded”…