During the decade of the 1930’s Herbert Hoover was in office as the President of the USA. There was a Dust Bowl during this decade and also The Great Depression.
During the 1930’s the population was 123,188,000 in 48 states. There were 58.1 males and 61.1 females. Everything back then wasn’t as high priced as it is now. Especially the food because for a quart of milk was only 14 cents, a loaf of bread was only 9 cents, and a Round Steak was only 42 cents a pound. That is a big difference from how things are priced in the decade that we live in right now. There is also a big difference in the annual salary because back then it was $1,368 it is much more now in 2011. The unemployment rate in the 1930’s was 25% seeing that there was a great depression then.
In the 1930’s decade Herbert Hoover was in office as the President of the USA during the years of 1929-1933. He was the son of a blacksmith, born in an Iowa village in 1874 and he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer. He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry and they went to China, where he worked for a private cooperation as China’s Leading Engineer. Mr. Hoover was elected on his promise of continued prosperity for America. Unfortunately, almost immediately upon his arrival in office, Hoover was faced with the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. The crash soon resulted in large-scale bank failures which, in turn, resulted in business collapse on a scale unprecedented in history. Before long, there were 13 million unemployed Americans. Hoover was torn between two conflicting instincts, and two opposing sets of advice. On the one hand, his individualist tendencies, and his belief in the business system, tended to make him opposed to large-scale government relief. On the other hand, his genuine compassion for those in trouble made him want to do something to relieve the mass poverty. Finally, and to...