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| In the early 1930s shantytowns sprang up in cities across the United States, built by people made homeless by the Great Depression. The areas, like this one in Seattle, were nicknamed Hoovervilles because their inhabitants blamed United States president Herbert Hoover for their plight. | ||||||
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| United States (History); Seattle; Great Depression in the United States; Hoover, Herbert Clark; Poverty | ||||||
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