LECTURE 12: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE DEPRESSION

Lecture Outline

1. The Crash of '29.
2. Hoover versus the Depression.
3. The election of 1932.
4. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
5. FDR, Al Smith, and the issues.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

"Hoovervilles"
Pres. Grover Cleveland
National Credit Corporation (1931)
Emergency Relief Organization (1930)
Hoover Dam (1931)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
Bonus March (1932)
"New Deal"
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"fireside chats"
Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)

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