HOOVERVILLES!During the Great Depression, many families lost their homes because they could not pay their mortgages. These people had no choice but to seek different forms of shelter. Hoovervilles, named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the problems that led to the depression, increased throughout the United States. People blamed president Hoover for doing to little. People named Hoovervilles to shacks where homeless people lived. Evereything "hoovers" used had the name hoover in front of it. They used "Hoover blankets" which were papers they used to cover them selves. "Hoover Leather" was the name for a peice of cardboard stuck in a hole in you're shoe so you're foot didn't go through the hole. "Hoover stew" was the name people gave the soup that was very thin Hoovervilles got in soup kitchens.
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