The Hoovervilles

1.What were they?
They were settlements of people that had lost their homes due to the Great Depression, that were built by them in isolated and empty lands, and they constructed tents and shanties. The authorities usually didn't interact with them due to the needs of the population.

2.Who were they named after? Why?
They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was the president of the USA at those times. People named Hoovervilles after him because he was blamed to have left the country fall in the Great Depression and for the share exchange problems.

3.In "The Grapes of Wrath", the Joad family stayed in a Hooverville. Who wrote the novel?
It was written by the american novelist John Steinbeck, author of one of my favourite novels of all time, "Of Mice and Men".