When Herbert Hoover took over the presidency after Calvin Coolidge, the country seemed to be on a track of constant prosperity. Under the previous Republican administrations, he had served as the Secretary of Commerce, so there was little doubt in Hoover’s mind that the economy would be nothing to worry about during his term in office. What Hoover didn’t expect was to be thrown into the worse economic crisis the United States had ever been in.
Hoover’s personal philosophy played a big part in how he dealt with the Great Depression. His philosophies of having people help themselves by reducing government handouts became the national
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