Opposed to the idea that government should be directly involved in people’s lives, Hoover

Hoover favored limited government relief, but he believed the government could help fight the Depression by encouraging businesses and funding public works that created jobs. So the best choice is that he believed creating jobs would help Americans survive the Depression. He did not encourage families to move to shantytowns; those camps were often called Hoovervilles by his critics.

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