They believed that he handled the Great Depression the best that he could at a time when American society was not open to sweeping reforms.
Most Southerners were wealthy people who invested most of their money in land especially cotton farming. This is because there was growing demand for textiles. They also invested in slaves so they preferred shipping via rivers and seas. The answer to our question is water travel.
In a long-awaited history due to be published this week, journalist and author Anne Applebaum draws on firsthand accounts and previously unpublished archival material to describe how the Kremlin established its hegemony over Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. The book, titled Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe<span>, 1944-56, explores the gutting of local institutions and the murders, terror campaigns, and tactical maneuvering that allowed Moscow to establish a system of control that would last for decades to come. I spoke with, Applebaum, whose previous book, a history of the Soviet Gulag, won the Pulitzer Prize.</span>
<u> B) waiting for the economy to come out of the Depression </u>
Soon after the American President Herber Hoover took office in 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed and the Great Depression started in the U.S., affecting severely its economy and American families.
<u>Hoover was harshly criticized for not recognizing the severity of the situation and for not undertaking enough measures to address the crisis.</u> As a conservative politician, he believed that too much federal intervention was a threat to capitalism and individualism and instead, he promoted the idea that it was states and people themselves who had to provide relief to struggling people.
