The Hoover Company

The Hoover Dam was an engineering marvel of its time period. This project was one of the largest construction projects ever attempted in the U. S. history. The original purpose of the dam was for irrigation, water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric production. The dam project was interesting to study because of the history involved, the construction phase, and the different benefits to the country. During the early 1900’s, the U.S. bureau of Reclamation wanted to find a way to help…

The Great Depression Norris Williams Mr. Jared David English III 10 March 2017 Outline Thesis Statement: The stock market crash of 1929 the contributed to the Great Depression of 1930 which cause economy to be poor. Introduction: In 1929 the the stock market crashed badly due to a market that was overbought, overvalued, and excessively bullish, rising even as economic conditions were not supporting the advance. By November the stock market lost a third of its september value…

In FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and his New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, Jim Powell argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression through his actions as the President of the United States. Powell successfully shows that FDR extended the Great Depression during his presidency through his policies. Powell uses many court cases to help his thesis. Powell is also able to prove his thesis by using many prominent scholars in their respected fields. Powell does have some…

history, President Hoover and other leaders initially underestimated the depression. Hoover called it “a passing incident in our national lives,” and assured Americans that it would be over in 60 days.21 The only difference at the end of those two months was the unemployment rate, and it was going up. During the years following the Stock Market Crash consumer spending and investing dropped. These declines lead to less industrial output and resulted in rising unemployment as companies were forced…

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…

period was known as The Great Depression. As America began to entire this desperate time, a new president was elected. Herbert Hoover was elected into the presidency in 1929. Less than eight months into his term, it happened. The day known as Black Tuesday was the end of a two-week downfall of the Wall Street Stock Market. This was a time where people were investing in companies and on “get rich…

When the depression first began Herbert Hoover didn’t think the depression was going to last and he gave many speeches to help people regain their confidence and give them hope which he thought would improve the situation. He also invited businesses, financial, and labor leaders into the White House to encourage them to keep their businesses open and to do their best to prevent layoffs and keep wages stable. (1085) One of the things he did to create jobs was to start government construction jobs…

about eight dollars, then dropped about one dollar. This was still happening but more towards the favor of the companies by going up more so than down. In 1929 the top 500 best public companies (financially wise) were at their peak. At the beginning of 1929 all the way till 1932 the stock market was dropping dramatically. That is what this diagram is showing. The People's Side Herbert Hoover thought wrong when he thought that the economy would get better by itself. It got tremendously worse.…

The Hoover Dam is one of the greatest megastructures in the world, for many reasons. This Dam spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas Nevada. In the early 19 hundreds there were extreme flooding from the melting snow in the Rocky Mountains that had came down to the Colorado River. Because of that this is when they decided to construct a dam to control the water flow. Arthur Powell Davis, head of the U.S. Bureau of…

progressive era present Ted Roosevelt enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act and made big corporation like the railroad company to start to break up and create competition to benefit the workers and consumers. On the other side Hoover also middle in the free market companies business. He made the companies to keep their employee and to keep their wages. Another great depression reform made by Hoover is that he fostered cooperation and business to stabilize prices for their commodities in order to…