Hooverville

However, this made little significant impact because income tax was already low. Hoover also asked that big business owners not lower the employee wage. Many became homeless as a result of the Great Depression and, as a result, Hoovervilles were created. In these Hoovervilles, the homeless built shacks to live and named it after the president that they held responsible for their misfortune. Although Hoover did believe that charities should step in and help relieve suffering, he denied requests…

President Hoover was widely criticized for not helping the citizens and just the farmers. People were struggling and needed help from someone with competency. People would go to the streets and would build small huts out of scrap wood, and call them “Hoovervilles”. Throughout the Great Depression, people were becoming homeless and unemployed because President Hoover didn’t do anything to try and help them. Throughout the Great Depression people were getting tired and annoyed by, with President…

Social classes play many big roles during the Great Depression. There are the poor people, and the top 1% that are rich, there is no middle class during the great depression. The Great Depression began with the stock market crash in 1929. This book is more about what happened to all the people when they got laid off and the large economic crash that affected everyone. This story is written from sixteen-year old Gordon Parks perspective and his life during the Great Depression. He worked as a…

States. That period is known as The Great Depression. During that time nearly twenty-five percent of the population was unemployed, homeless, and famine. Most people lost their home’s and were obligated to live in little shacks that were called Hooverville. President Herbert Hoover did not do anything to stop that quandary. Soon after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to power. The New Deal was the first act taking by President FDR to bring the United States back to its cheerful…

Hoover’s actions as president greatly affected his legacy. As destitutes lost their money and house, they made poor quality and unsanitary houses that varied in size and these communal camps became known as “Hoovervilles.” Millions of Americans had to construct and live in the Hoovervilles. Hoovervilles posed a health risk to…

the day, they were forced to look for low-paying day jobs. These people had to fight through the crowds and hope that they were the five or six picked for the job. Others who couldn’t find a job were kicked out of their homes and forced to Hoovervilles. Hoovervilles were shacks made from cardboard where tons of people lived. Over the years, people began to riot against police because of their terrible condition. Nevertheless, it wasn’t just the poor that were affected by the Great Depression.…

and it became the start of the Bonus Army. They arrived in droves, setting up Hoovervilles, and marched around the Capitol. The House of Representatives heard their cries and passed the bill. In contrast, the Senate put it’s foot down, demolishing the Bonus bill, and slipped away in the middle of the night to avoid personal harm.…

submission and rebellion, and isn’t the reckless man he used to be. Both Jim Casy and Floyd notice the inhumane treatment the migrants receive, but their differing priorities define how they each solve the problem. After the Joad family arrives at the Hooverville, Floyd speaks to Tom and gives him advice on how he should behave: ‘Well, when the cops come in, an’ they come in all a time, that’s how you wanta be. Dumb—don’t know nothin’. Don’t understand nothin’. That’s how the cops like us. Don’t…

The Grapes of Wrath begins with Tom Joad, a young man fresh out of prison and on parole, searching for his family home which he hadn’t seen in four years. In his search he finds an empty shell of a past, with his family home, as well as the rest of the town, being abandoned. In his searches, Tom also finds a companionship with an ex-preacher who is an idealistic man that believes humanity works best as one. While at his former home Tom comes across an old neighbor who is the only man who remains…

Unification, defined as: coming together for a common purpose while division as a divergence between two groups, typically producing tension or hostility. Poverty and struggle bring forth these two reactions and cause people to join together through the struggle or divide to fight against one another. Ma Joad chooses to be the glue of her family and unite through poverty and struggle, she chooses empathy and graciousness over rifts and division. Ma Joad allows Jim Casy to embark on the Joads…