[HIST 110] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (42 pages long!)
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Believed america was heading for great things: predicts us will abolish poverty. Unemployment rate 40: very despised, very bitter. Stock markets contributed to depression: bogus investments, high tariffs. Gap contributed to global depression: october 1929. Great depression: left fear across us. Hoover flags: indicate they were broke, showed the president didn"t care. Collected food scraps at the end of the day. Leave food scraps in trash for people to sort through. Hoover-rag-tag model: get them out of the federal building, but do it with restraint. 15,000 veterans and their families: maintained the army life, primitive conditions, hoover. Remove them with some restraint : dwight eisenhower. This is like a street brawl: mcgarver. Follows them, does not obey hoovers orders: both set fire to the encampment. Little boy hit with knife and bayonet through his arm: fdr campaigns. Congress votes to give them money to take a train back home. Fdr runs for president: 1922 contracted polio.
