It matters on the context. Best guess would be the village.
Answer: No because
Explanation: Hoover's response to the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley tariff which rose tariffs on over 20,000 products. ... Hoover was nicknamed "Do nothing" by the Democrats, they blamed him for sticking to Laissez faire economics, but this accusation was wrong as he pushed for more state intervention which eventually failed.
It would be "Whether a new state or territory should enter the Union as Free or Slave" that had the most impact on the Civil War, since the North was strongly against the spread of slavery, while the South was in favor of it.