HOOVERVILLES

-What were they?
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression.

-Who were they named after? Why? 
They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums.

-In The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family stary in a Hooverville. Who wrote the novel? 
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.