Why Did Hoover Try To Stop The Great Depression

When we think of the nineteen twenties we often think of some dark, smoke filled speakeasy, where people are gathered around drinking some homemade moonshine and listening to jazz music. The nineteen twenties are often referred to the Roaring Twenties. A much better title for the time might be the Rollercoastering Twenties; like a rollercoaster on the way up to the summit, the time was filled with great excitement, but as the drop of a roller coaster appears the riders do not often see it till they are on their way down. This is exactly what happened at the end of the nineties twenties. The Great Depression seems to come out of no where for the people of the time, but as we know today, the Great Depression was not one big thing that happened out of no where, but a combination of

That man would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The legacy of the president before Roosevelt, Hoover, was solely defined by his action to stop the Depression, or perceived lack of action. The idea that Hoover did not take major steps to try to stop the depression have come under fire. In an article by Andrew Wilson, Wilson takes comely assumed idea that Hoover thought the market would self correct, arguing, “Far from a free-market idealist, Hoover was an ardent believer in government intervention to support the incomes and employment. This is critical to understanding the origins of the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt didn’t reverse course upon moving in the white house in 1933; he went further down the same path that Hoover had blazed over the pervious four years.” Roosevelt knew in order to win the election he must appeal to the common and gain their trust. He ran with the idea of the New Deal. The New Deal would correct the shortcomings that the US government had when dealing with the people during the panic; it was also the plan in which the economy would be turned around