Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles
- 31st president of the US
- began socialist procedures
- Made people unhappy with the way he was running things
- homeless people created Hoovervilles
- "let the country slip into a depression"
Hoovervilles
- makeshift towns
- tents or shacks
- named after Herbert Hoover
Summary: President Hoover, was in power during the Great Depression, and he made lots of decisions that upset many people. He was said to have let the country slip into the depression further, and citizens were forced to be homeless because of it. They lived in makeshift towns and called them Hoovervilles in spite of their president.