Thursday, September 12, 2013

Hooverville:

Research what the term "Hooverville" means.  Post any information you find on this topic. Remember, your reader needs a complete understanding of what Hooverville is.  Describe it in great detail. 

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  1. A "Hooverville" is named for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it.

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  2. Hooverville is a place that homeless people live in the Great Depression. It was name after the president Herbert Hoover

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  3. As the Depression worsened and millions of urban and rural families lost their jobs and depleted their savings, they also lost their homes. . They named it Hooverville after president Herbert Hoover.

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    1. How did they lose there homes

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    2. They named it after him because hey didn't help the people during the Great Depression.

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  4. Hooverville was named after a president name Herbert Hoover he was in office at the start of the Great Depression build from homeless people

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    1. Did he help the homeless people during the Great Depression?

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  5. Hooverville is a shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They also named it after Herbert Hoover(the president of the U.S.). Hoover did nothing to help all the people during this time.

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  6. Hooverville is named shanty town that was made by homeless people when the Great Depression was happening.they named it after Herbert Hoover who was the president of the United States during the Great Depression and they were blamed widely for it.

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  7. People lost there homes because they did not have work or money .

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  8. Hooverville is named after the president

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  9. Hobos and Tramps were common sights in the 1929 in Hooverville.

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  10. Hooverville is the name of shanty towns they where houses built by homeless people during the Great Depression.

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    1. Where did they put all the food and was the house secure

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  11. A "Hooverville" is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it.

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  12. The homeless people lived there during the Great Depression

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  13. Hooverville was "During the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted approximately a decade, shantytowns appeared across the U.S. as unemployed people were evicted from their homes"

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  14. Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s. It is were the Holmes people lived in and made a town call Hooverville.

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  15. Hooverville was built by homeless people during the Great Depression

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  16. the Great Depression, many families lost their homes because they could not pay their mortgages. These people had no choice but to seek alternative forms of shelter. Hoovervilles, named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the problems that led to the depression, sprung up throughout the United States , all of this information is found on library of congress.

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  17. Is a popular name for shanty homes built by homeless people when 1930's came

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    1. During the Great Depression The homeless people built Shanty Towns mostly known as Hooverville.

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  18. A "Hooverville" is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it.

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  19. Hooverville was a town where the poor lived since they lost their homes, it was named after president Hoover because they thought he was to blame.

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  20. Hooverville is also named Shanty Towns , this town was built by homeless people during the Great Depression. These homeless people lived in tents or shacks.

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  21. The homeless built and lived their during the Great Depression.

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  22. Hooverville is a very depressing poor place and lots of families lost their home and trying to survive out there.

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  23. Hooverville is a place that homeless people live in the Great Depression. Hooverville was named after a president name Herbert Hoover

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  24. Hooverville is a shantytown built by the poor people and the destitute people during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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  25. "A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s."

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  26. Hooverville is a small poor town lots lost lost jobs and were homeless.

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