What do you think, in terms of governmental activity, would be the correct response to such a dilemma like the Great Depression The United States implemented policies practicing deportation and repatriation. How did the removal of these immigrants affect the U. S. economy and society?

Life during the Great Depression was not easy. America’s unemployment rate skyrocketed to twenty-five percent and the social elites were not immune to the growing financial hardships facing the United States. What changes to daily life occurred for the common people affected by the economic hardships of the Great Depression?

Think about the veterans of the Bonus Army and the strategy they used to protest the government. Could the marchers have used a different method of protest to list their grievances to the federal government?

Former president Herbert Hoover is notoriously known for his rugged individualism (political philosophy) approach towards government. With this ideology and constant urging to keep the size, power, and scope of the federal government under control, he was very reluctant to intervene in the lives of ordinary people during the depression. Why might historians rank Hoover so poorly?