Herbert Clark Hoover was born Aug 10, 1874, He died October 20,1964, He was raised in West Branch, Iowa. Only President from Iowa,and his father was a blacksmith and owned a store. His father died in 1880 then his moth 4 years later. This left Hoover a 9 year old orphan.Hoover spent the rest of his childhood with uncles and aunts. He had no high school teachings ,but attended night school where he learnde the basics. When he went to colledge he attended a new unaversity that had just opened. This happened to be standford unaveristy. Later in life he clamed to be the first student to ever attend there.Hoover was our 31st president. Hoover was elected in 1928, With a landslide win, He had the republican votes. He had no record of being in a high rank in military. This was not the first time a president had no milatary rank, Taft was the other president. Hoover was trained engineer.. About 8 months after Hoover took office the Wall Street Crash hit in 1929.This Great Depression was huge, Hoover tried to bring it down and make things better but in his term he could not. Sadly he lost in the next election and Hoover went down in history as a poor president. The Great Depression, The big reason was the stock market crash, That occured 29th of october 1929. When it crashed they lost over 40 billion dollars, It didnt matter that the stock market started to ragain some moeny becdause the damage was already taking its toll on the system. Another cuase was the banks.there were almost 9000 banks that failed,and people lost there saving and accounts, the surving banks basiccly took cover and tried there best to make sure they didnt fail too.so they stopeed giving loans and being leanyent on customers. A third reason is that when the crash of the stalk market hit,people got scared they would go broke so they stoped buying useless items thus this started a chain reaction. Factory stoped production of many items wich made thousands of people lose there jobs. So all the people who lost there jobs could not pay for the things they owed on. like intrest and monthly payments and sence people couldnt pay the credit card and dealership businesses lost out on that money. 4th. is that sence all this was going on the gov decided to make the smooth hawley tariff in 1930 wich taxed incoming goods from other countrys wich lessened the trade between other countrys. In ther words this was the worst time to be an american.
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