US History › Section M · Depression and New Deal › Topic M.3
The depths of the Depression and the Hoover record
By the winter of 1932-1933, about one American worker in four was jobless, thousands of banks had closed and drought was turning the southern Plains to dust. The suffering fell unevenly, and it shaped how Americans judged Herbert Hoover and what they would demand of his successor.
In this topic
- The scale of the collapse
- Bank failures and deflation
- Daily life in hard times
- Black Americans: last hired, first fired
- Mexican Americans and repatriation
- Farmers and the Dust Bowl
- Worked example: debt-deflation on a farm
- The rest of Hoover's record
- Worked example: weighing the Hoover record
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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