Across the country, protests were a common sight. World War One veterans or“soldiers of misfortune”, marched on Washington to demand their soldier pay earlier. President Hoover refused and sent in soldiers to remove the mob that was summarized as being the “ ragged hordes blocked traffic, clung like swarming bees to the steps of the Capitol.” Out West, poor farmers refused to continued the trend until their demands were met. It spread all across the Midwest until “all the roads leading to Sioux City were picketed.” The Great Depression was an event that no one knew what to do with. President Hoover tried to do nothing and let the economy right itself. His predecessors, FDR, attempted to create government programs to bring the sinking economy back to floating again. He wanted to stop seeing new pictures each day of hundreds waiting in line to get a small meal at a soup kitchen. Seeing prominent young “college men are shoveling sand, checking freight cars, working in filling stations.” He then implemented his New Deal. It was full of programs specifically designed to relieve, recover, and reform. Even with all his effort, America did not recover financially until the start of World War
Across the country, protests were a common sight. World War One veterans or“soldiers of misfortune”, marched on Washington to demand their soldier pay earlier. President Hoover refused and sent in soldiers to remove the mob that was summarized as being the “ ragged hordes blocked traffic, clung like swarming bees to the steps of the Capitol.” Out West, poor farmers refused to continued the trend until their demands were met. It spread all across the Midwest until “all the roads leading to Sioux City were picketed.” The Great Depression was an event that no one knew what to do with. President Hoover tried to do nothing and let the economy right itself. His predecessors, FDR, attempted to create government programs to bring the sinking economy back to floating again. He wanted to stop seeing new pictures each day of hundreds waiting in line to get a small meal at a soup kitchen. Seeing prominent young “college men are shoveling sand, checking freight cars, working in filling stations.” He then implemented his New Deal. It was full of programs specifically designed to relieve, recover, and reform. Even with all his effort, America did not recover financially until the start of World War