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In 1929, The Great Depression hit America.The stock market crashed which caused America to go into a great panic. The unemployment rates spiked to a peak. many people lost jobs, homes, and money. many banks were closing because of the fact that they had no money and what is a bank without any money. Herbert Hoover created small shantytowns that were nicknamed Hoovervilles. Two of the main causes of the Great Depression were The Dust Bowl and the Stock Market Crash.

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He was involved with the first long distance television broadcast.

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Herbert Hoover was inaugurated into presidency in 1929 and his term ended in 1933. Hiss vice president for those years was Charles Curtis.

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Before Hoover was elected, the US was still trying to fully recover from the effects of World War 1 which  Hoover was involved with. the president before hand(Calvin Coolidge) had just announced he would not be running for president in 1928 so the people of America were a little panicked

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He was elected as president in 1928 in the republican party, He defeated the democratic runner Alfred Smith who was the governor of New York

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Before he was president he was a mining engineer which was very good to him and made him a multimillionaire. But at the beginning of WW1 he decided to become a humanitarian. In 1917 Woodrow WIlson(the president at the time) decided to make him head of the Food Administration and Hoover persuaded everyone to save up food and give it to the troops along with clothes.

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Herbert Hoover met Lou Henry while in college. They got married and had two boys named Herbert and Allan Henry.

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His parents were Jesse and Hulda Hoover. He was orphaned at the age of nine and was sent to live with an uncle. He went to college at Stanford and studied geolody.

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He was the 31st president of the United States. He was born on August 10th, 1864 in West Branch, Iowa.