Hoover's initial response to the Great Depression was of laissez-faire thinking. He encouraged volunteerism (people helping people) and for the government to stay out of the situation.
As the depression drew on, Hoover eventually begins reform putting in programs to regulate and control banking, farming, and begin jobs programs. However, morale and trust had been lost leaving Hoover undesirable.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white southern democrat dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the reconstruction period.
A political cartoon showing an urban area as dirty, rat-infested, and covered with graffiti is an example of stereotyping
It established the idea of the “separate but equal.” It ruled segregation violated the rules of the Constitution. It created laws to make separate facilities equal for all races. It generated interest in the link between grades and emotions.
