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Hoovervilles
The shanty towns were named "Hoovervilles" after President Herbert Hoover because many people blamed him for the Great Depression. Once newspapers began using the name to describe the shanty towns, the name stuck.Conditions of Hoovervilles. The conditions in Hoovervilles were not to the best they should have been. The people there were the poorest of the poor. The people living there had little to no money and no jobs. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, formally United States Tariff Act of 1930, also called Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930) that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
What circumstances conspired to cause the Dust Bowl? Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s.In the fall of 1939, after nearly a decade of dirt and dust, the drought ended when regular rainfall finally returned to the region.
