During the Great Depression, Americans called shantytowns “Hoovervilles,” newspapers “Hoover blankets,” and their empty pants pockets “Hoover flags.” How did they feel about Herbert Hoover?

They clearly believed he was to blame for the Depression, and they despised him for bringing them so much misery and suffering. They held him responsible and despised him.

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.

the northwest ordinance of 1787 guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there.