Who was the president during the great depression?
Hoover was the president when the market crashed but it had been coming since the end of WWI. The soldiers returned from Europe to no jobs, a deflated economy. For a while things picked up, but the government reduced the armed forces thinking there was no chance of another war. By 1929 things were hopping, alcohol was illegal and crime was high. When Roosevelt was elected and took office in 1933, he set out to break the depression with jobs. He started the C.C.Camps, groups of workers who set out to build the highway system across America and buildings. This helped greatly but the depression finally broke with the start of WWII. One of the things that helped break the depression was the re-legalization of alcohol by the repeal of the Prohibition Act.
