President Hoover Accomplishments

To President Hoover these troubles did not relate to the one he considered to be the most grand, that of the lack of confidence. According to him, that individual problem is what the people had been fighting throughout the whole ordeal. And although the idea of relief from new found states of the depression would have been found in the government, President Hoover upheld the idea that the American citizens could be self-reliant and rise above the depression without the interference of government aid or assistance. He truly believed the depression would be defeated using methods of such, and that things would begin taking a turn in the right direction and recovery would soon occur. (4) This hopeful thought did not take shape into reality. Instead,

So when it came time to elect a new president Hoover seemed to be just what the nation was need. He had a reputation seen in no other, and had managed a huge successful rescue mission when needed. He was someone no one had thought could fail seeing as he had done what no other could do. However, soon after the Great Depression, the people realized he was not as grand as could be, but merely “a timid boy’s scout,” not even near the super man Roosevelt and others thought him to be. The Great Depression was something the mast of people believed he would be able to handle, since being an economic man was his specialty. Yet even though he talked principles and organized charities, he never did anything big enough to be seen as helpful. (6) The man, Herbert Hoover, who once was seen as a symbol of compassion and efficiency for the things he accomplished, then turned out to be one of greedy incompetence due to all him mistakes and ignorance of the situation he deemed to be self-resolving. (7) The shouldered blame placed on Hoover was strikingly obvious in how the camps, which were littered with filth and debris that made up the only housing the homeless were able to dwell in, were named after him, being coined as Hoovervilles by newspaper reporter, Charles Michelson. (8) Hoovervilles held those people who were left unemployed and had to learn what to do without the money they had

This was especially seen in males as females were able to hold onto their low paying jobs more securely. In doing so they were still able to bring in some sort of income for their families and graduated away from being strictly tied to their role of remaining in the house. Men were more so affected by this situation. Considering the men lost their jobs and were unable to provide for their families, their mental state took a hit as well. The economic collapse forced men to become dependent on what little warfare was provided for them for relief which left them shameful of their new dependency. (10) Many families found that help was not enough and ended up in one of the many Hoovervilles spread across countless cities. These cities included: New York, Washington, St. Louis, and others. The fact that Hoovervilles were spreading “obscenely on the garbage dumps and waste-lands of every city periphery” was concerning within itself. (11) Even though Hoovervilles were for the people who had no money or homes they were still an unsanitary residence that posed health risks to those living in them and those living in the cities as well. Yet the residents in them had no place else to go. Homelessness became a symbol of profound malaise in the Unities States and the homeless individuals, dubbed hobos, rightfully became the embodiment of rugged American individualism which emphasized the fact