The Economics and Politics of Depression Quiz

Hoover believed that government assistance would create reliance on handouts and defeat the very self-reliance that he deemed ______.

Hoover formulated policies based on his idea of voluntary cooperation, where business leaders would make sacrifices for the benefit of the nation, just as workers ______ too.

In both farming and banking, the idea of voluntary cooperation failed to stabilize the troubled ______.

Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff in June 1930, which raised American tariffs on foreign agricultural and manufactured goods by as much as ______ percent.

The Unemployed Citizen's League in Seattle created a system whereby people could exchange work for food, clothing, and other ______.