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What was President Hoover’s reaction to the early years of the Great Depression?

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he didnt like it very much
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President Hoover believed that it was simply a temporary dip in the economy. He did the Smoot Hawley Tarriff Act in 1929 to raise import taxes which destroyed businesses relying on exports of american goods to make money.

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