Herbert Hoover Voluntarism

A job that opens up every four years and requires great responsibility, is a job that some strive to take. Being a U.S. president comes with many high expectations. The people of America wants to vote for someone who they can rely on when it comes to protecting their rights and their country. Throughout history some of the U.S. presidents were able to win over the hearts of many by their accomplishments during their terms in office. Then there were those who ended up being blamed for causing unfortunate events to occur during their presidency. One president that had that happen to them was no other than president Herbert Hoover. Hoover who was known the 31st U.S. president has an interesting background before he became president and he definitely …show more content…
Leading them to dislike Hoover even more. He also did not want the government to get involved with handling The Great Depression, so Hoover used the term voluntarism to resolve the issue. What Hoover’s plan was for voluntarism, was the idea of having corporations improve working conditions and raise wages. But all that did was backfire as that did not help improve the situation. So then Hoover had to start containing the issue before it became uncontrollable. He then created a town called “Hooverville” and it was a town where it housed the homeless. The conditions of the homes where very poor and small. Most of the people were crammed inside the small shacks, which gives Hooverville alternative names like Shantyville and Shack Towns. People had to literally wait in bread lines, in order to be …show more content…
This definitely made Hoover unfavorable and far from being reelected. Later on Franklin D. Roosevelt steps in to lessen the effects of The Great Depression by using reliefs and reforms. Then when World War 2 starts occurring, America's economy went back up again and completely ended The Great Depression. The Great Depression most likely soiled Hoover’s reputation, but it should not be forgotten that he did accomplish a lot before his presidency. He just unfortunately got caught up with The Great Depression that his ideas on stopping the depression ended up backfiring. If he was to be considered as popular or unpopular, he would have been both, because as mentioned before he did help aid people during World War 1 and valued himself as a humanitarian. Which was the quality on why people loved him so much and chose him to be their president. But he couldn’t do the same for The Great Depression, because he just was not successful at handling it and part of the reason why was because he did not want the involvement of the government. Instead he created Hooverville and that ended up failing as it did not resolve the