Definition of Hoovervilles. Meaning of Hoovervilles. Synonyms of Hoovervilles

- Men, women and children alike lived in Hoovervilles. Most of these unemplo**** residents of the Hoovervilles relied on public charities or begged for...
- Guatemala. During the 1930s Great Depression, shanty towns nicknamed Hoovervilles sprang up across the United States. Following the Great Depression, squatters...
- California Gold Rush. There was squatting during the Great Depression in Hoovervilles and also during World War II. Shanty towns returned to the US after the...
- Hoover's opponents developed defamatory epithets to discredit him, such as "Hooverville" (the shanty towns and homeless encampments), "Hoover leather" (cardboard...
- depression. Tacoma's Hooverville grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront. In 1927, Tacoma's Hooverville was coined "Hollywood"...
- into town. Hooverville arose during the Depression, leading to Seattle's growing homeless po****tion. Stationed outside Seattle, the Hooverville housed thousands...
- shantytowns, or "Hoovervilles" (named after Herbert Hoover, the president in office when the Depression began). These "Hoovervilles" were self-made communities...
- Steinbeck to personally interview multiple families in the impoverished Hoovervilles of the San Joaquin Valley. As Steinbeck visited the slums that hugged...
- themselves homeless, and began congregating in shanty towns – dubbed "Hoovervilles" – that began to appear across the country. In response, President Hoover...
- American exceptionalism wilted before a landscape of breadlines and Hoovervilles, forgotten men and fallen women. Due to the constant empty economic re****urances...