Herbert Hoover's Major Accomplishments

Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States of America. He served during the Great Depression and tried to resolve America's economy downfall. He was president from 1929 to 1933 and only served one term. He is known for making the Hoover Dam, which to this day is a national monument and a way to promote his taking into reelection. The three most important things about Herbert Hoover is his childhood, presidency, and his involvement in the Empire State Building.

Herbert Hoover was born in 1874, in a small town in Iowa. He was also the first president to be born west of the Mississippi River. When Hoover was six years old, his father died. Three years later his mother also died, and Hoover was then raised in Oregon by his maternal aunt and uncle. When Hoover grew up he was a lifelong huminitarium. He helped people in China in 1900 during the rebellion. After that he also helped get food for Belgium people in World War 1. This prompted president Woodrow Wilson to appoint him at the head of the Food Administration.

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He ran against New York governor Alfred E. Smith. He won by a landslide with only losing to 8 small states. As soon as he got into office the economy crashed and America entered the Great Depression. He attacked this by raising taxes. So that people could keep more money in there pockets. He also contacted business leaders to not cut wages, but none of his ideas didn’t work and watched America go into poverty. In 1932 he ran against Franklin D. Roosevelt and lost by a landslide because the American people blamed him for there poverty and wouldn’t by a single word he