The+Great+Depression+Levels+North+Carolina

=7 facts of Hoover=
 * 1) Herbert Hoover was a Republican.
 * 2) He was a millionaire.
 * 3) Hoover was an orphan.
 * 4) He had 2 children.
 * 5) Hoover was a succeccful businessman.
 * 6) Hoover was a workaholic.
 * 7) Hoover was the 1st president to have a telephone.

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= = = O. Max Gardner became governor in early 1929 = after a long career of     =public service to the state. Gardner, a college football star in the early= =1900s, had been the youngest man ever to be elected lieutenant governor,= =the second highest office in the state.=



= The Causes of the Great Depression = =Most Americans remember that the depression started with the famous= =stock market crash of 1929. (A     stock market           is a place where the stock of corporations is bought and sold.) The market did crash, and stocks lost vaue, ruining many companies and individuals. =

= The Live at Home Program = =The people who suffered first in North Carolina were the sharecroppers= =and mill village hands. They had little or nothing to fall back on. By 1931,= =matters got worse, and they had little or no work.=