30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Trista - December 22, 2018

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression
Herbert Hoover in the Oval Office with Ted Joslin in 1932. Government Archive/Wikimedia Commons.

29. You Probably Loathed Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was the president when the stock market crashed in 1929. In March 1930, he declared that the worst of the depression had passed. In his honor, people who had lost their homes and had to live in shanty towns called their dilapidated dwellings “Hoovervilles.”

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