study sources 1 and b. do these sources prove that the crash and the depression were the responsibility of the republican party and its leader?

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During the economic boom America was growing quickly and poverty in cities decreased dramatically, and people gained a lot of money and used to things such as raise businesses, begin mass production of products and buying stocks on the stock market. And Hoover used this to his advantage saying “        We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.” This is what the Americans wanted to hear because everyone who gained money wanted more, and people who was in poverty liked to hear that America was getting rid of poverty, because they thought that Hoover would help them get out of poverty if he was elected president.

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No one could predict the coming of the Wall Street crash when the world got lunged deep into debt, and Roosevelt used this to his advantage “millions of our citizens cherish the hope that their old standards of living have not gone forever.” Roosevelt said this because he knew that some of the American public were angry about the Wall Street crash and the promise by Hoover saying that they were close to the end of poverty, and now the whole world is in a poverty crisis. And they needed someone to rely on because they thought Hoover would help ...

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